I understand your intention, the non-linear hypertext affects cognitive abilities badly in many ways. But your approach has limits. You might have 9000 lines of

I understand your intention, the non-linear hypertext affects cognitive abilities badly in many ways. But your approach has limits. You might have 9000 lines of text now, but any non-trivial corpus of knowledge will make things explode. You have to split the file at some point. Otherwise - in your analogy - you will not read a book, but a library in a linear fashion.