Thus, we have the potential to deal with variants in new and exciting ways, but the problems of which variations to include and how to treat their correspondences and differences remains. There are many advantages to doing hypertextual scholarship. Cost is less of a factor, especially for the reproduction of color images. Hypertexts are open systems. A hypertext can be updated and edited cheaply and indefinitely.
Users can make their own additions to a hypertext.
Indeed, as noted above, there are few limits to the amount of linked and or included material that can be included in a hypertext. Yet creating a hypertext document is not easy. Hypertexts are extremely labor-intensive. Far fewer people know how to use hypertexts than know how to read. Then there are the technical limits of the medium.