From there they may link to a page about Michigan immigration issues. Obviously, hypertext reading, as any reading, does not happen in a linear fashion. Jane Yellowlees Douglas agrees. Students who access the Freedom Web may begin reading the poem, but they may never finish it. Or they may have to suspend their reading as they navigate through some of the other links.
Readers suspend their involvement with one part of the text, only to become involved in another.
This is an important aspect of hypertext. Since hypertext permits readers to choose their own paths through a particular web, or docuverse, it challenges our notion that text is an entity that contains a definable beginning, middle, and end. The Freedom Web has a starting place, the Rita Dove poem. But it really has no middle or end. When the Freedom Web is published on the World Wide Web it will link to other documents and truly become endless.