I went into it blind and the first thought ( which is probably very common ) is that this experience would greatly benefit from a hypertext implementation. There's a neutral interpretation here. https://www.tundrasquid.com/palefireindex.htm

I think jumping back and forth via hypertext would be a bad reading experience; what you ideally want is two panes scrolling in parallel. (I read it keeping two copies of the book open on my kindle and phone but if I reread it I'll probably use split windows on a laptop instead)

seems broken. the anchor tags do nothing.