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Whew! I should have known better than to open up a Hypertext discussion and then leave town for the Memorial Day holiday. I greatly appreciate all the responses I have been reading through, many of them from folks much more knowledgeable than I about both hypertext and current networks, etc. In fact, I was almost completely scared off the whole idea until Abigail's last note. Certainly the Cadillac (or is the metaphor "Lexus" these days?) version of such a program would involve full markup and be available over the network. But such a text would involve a great deal of work and we may need to wait until it becomes clear just which programs, lists, and the like are going to survive and flourish. Meanwhile, I have a couple of questions. Of course electronic texts of the sort discussed by Pat Conner and others appeal greatly to those of us who subscribe to networks like REED-L, but might not some relatively simple hypertextual presentation of the REED material have a broader audience? This links to my second question, which is whether there might be some value to a "quick and dirty" hypertext version of some of the records as a means of advertising REED during tough financial times? Peter