House of Lies

I just put the topic title there for fun. Although this post is about House of leaves. Anyway, I was talking last week in my group about House of Leaves, and wondering how different it would have read if it was placed on the Internet instead of in a book. I know it was leaked onto the internet early, which gave it it's original cult following, and I wonder how different it was to read it then. Having hyperlinks to the different footnotes instead of the footnotes taking over the page, being able to directly link to words in the the index. Linking directly to the mother's letters. Would this greatly change the experience of reading the story? In my opinion, most definately. The spacial context of the words on the pages gives house of leaves a difinitive look and feel which contributes to the bizzarre nature of the story. Reading the book through hypertexts would be a totally different experience, although it could produce even more interesting results.