Thus, they are the perfect vehicle for creating archival, critical, and scholarly editions of textual works.
Selection includes choosing which texts and variants are going to be used.
Hypertext offers the opportunity, which books do not, to decentralize the authority of individual texts. Comparison consists of providing the means for users to compare variants in texts in both new and productive ways. Providing links from one text to the next is another. Lavagnino imagines the development of tools that will allow the user to make open ended queries and generate comparative reports based on variables the user specifies. For now, however, merely figuring out how to link and display texts seems enough of a challenge.