A series of random hops over the web left me realising that I had no idea what the cbr file format was. I had been researching e-book formats for a course I am about to begin teaching. I had thought that I had the winners nailed down. They were pdf and epub. Then I found mentions of CBR, and wondered: what the hell is that?

E-merl is an interesting experiment in online narrative that isn’t the usual hypertext bollocks. In fact “not the usual hypertext bollocks” could well stand as its motto.

One of the interesting things about the web is that it usually makes no distinction between the important and the trivial. This means that there is a wealth of detail available about almost anything.

I found an interesting online paper called Unconventional Reading by Jason Craft, which looks at what comics can teach us about reading hypertexts.