In Greco-Roman writing, there is no functional difference between vowels and consonants. With the interactive writing of the Semitic, it is Man who gives meaning to things and gestures through the interpretative attitude he adopts. It is in this sense that we compare the Semitic language and hypertext. The limit between reader and writer is blurred. To read hypertext, is no longer to passively consume, but to produce.
Hypertext demands and creates an active reader.
Moreover, An hypertextual system enables writers to collect information, follow specific courses in a body of correlated text, annotate existing texts and add notes giving readers additional information on the texts consulted. Readers browse connected texts, cited and annotated methodologically, but not sequentially. The multiplicity of hypertext functions therefore requires an active reader able to tie in the different material available to him. The reader no longer follows a text, but chooses his course of reading, and can later take notes, comment and send messages, which may in turn become text that confirms or quashes the original text. However, the fact of having to choose a course may destabilize inexperienced readers.