1. A method of presenting an interactive multimedia book on a computer system comprising the steps of: recognizing voiced commands spoken by a user of the book; responding to a voiced command to read text on a displayed page of the book by reading text on the displayed page of the book; identifying words which are active hyperlinks in the text on a displayed page of the book as the text is being read; activating at least one attribute of a word identified as an active hyperlink to indicate to the user of the book that the word is a hyperlink; recognizing a voiced word spoken by the user of the book as an active hyperlink; and responding to a voiced word which is an active hyperlink by moving to another page of the book which contains an anchor for the hyperlink.