Who said it first?


Numerous discussions of hypertext attempt to examine how the reading experience of a hypertextual text is different from that of a traditional text, and many of these have chosen to refer to the wreader - a conglomerate of both writer and reader, a word chosen in order to emphasize that the reader of a hypertext has to become actively involved in the process of reading the text, so much so that he or she ultimately becomes a writer of it. Sometimes a companion activity to wreading is referred to as well - riting. But even if there's a grain of truth in the idea of the reader becoming a writer, there's no reason to assume the need for the writer to become a reader, or perhaps more to the point, everyone, even before hypertext, accepts that the writer is also a reader.

I have come across the term wreader in perhaps forty documents that discuss hypertext, though no one seems to claim that he or she coined the phrase.


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