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The ease of navigation is an important consideration of the Internet user but not at all for most print readers. This is because with print, the conventions for presentation have been predefined. The readers hardly need to navigate the printed texts. With a book, the reader does from the beginning to the end. With a dictionary, the reader navigates alphabetically. There is a fair amount of standardization that the reader has centuries to grow accustomed to.

With the Internet however, there is not one standardized way of navigating or there may not even be any markers for navigation at all. There are however numerous strategies for navigation such as navigation bars, site maps, work indexes. The reader does not expect conformity in terms of strategies of navigation. However, an ease of navigation is expected to help the users maintain a sense of the coherent whole, to help them sift the information they want with the least amount of time (partly because users have to pay for the time spent on the net).