The reader of a Web page must take an active role in constructing the text he or she reads by, at the minimum, getting to the active page with a browser. The reader usually must scroll, choose links, choose whether or not to return to the first page viewed, sometimes enter text to find more information, sign a guestbook, and so forth.  Contrast reading the printed page: only the most avid of readers will look up notes, bibliographic entries, etc. Reading a Web page, however, the reader becomes, in some part, a collaborator in writing the text.

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