Writing Machines 2

I always undrstood what Electronic Literature and writing were. But I could never understand how e-literature would give a different experience than if the literature was being read from a print book. It dawned on me however while reading the third chapter of Writing machines. The problem I was having with understanding e-literature was that I thought e-literature was providing aditional information for the reader so that the reader would not have to imagine it. I was missing the point completely. Instead of providing additional information for the reader as I thought, e-literature is providing a whole new, in debht way of ingesting a story.
It hit me while reading about Shelly Jackson's Patchwork Girl, an electronic rewriting of Mary Shelly's Frankenstein. Frankenstein is a book enjoyed reading so I was interested to know what more an electronic rewriting could offer. I understood when I saw the picture of the monster and its brain in sections. Clicking on each section of the brain would take you to the stories of the women who made up the body of the monster. This provides a lot more information than the book and is there at the press of a button. It gives the reader a more in debth experience than a print text can. i print text could tell the stories of those women but it would make a very large book. The advantage with e-literature is that the information is there for you if you choose to click on it.