21. An apparatus for producing an electronic literary macramé of texts from a literary work, comprising: a computer, input means for the computer; display means for the computer; information storage and retrieval means for holding data and instructions for the computer; a repository for information connected to the computer; a set of files residing in the repository for information; a database program or spreadsheet program operating within the computer; a database supported by the database program or spreadsheet program for holding information concerning the characteristics of one or more scenes presented in the literary work; a set of processing control files residing in the repository for information, for linking the scenes of the literary work; a set of scene text files residing in the repository for information and containing the literary work; a set of reference text files residing in the repository for information and containing information supportive of the literary work; a set of link records residing in the repository for information and containing link information interconnecting the contents of the scene text files and reference text files; a set of utility programs and scripts operating within the computer for converting the set of scene text files into a set of scene hypertext files linking among scene text files of the literary work and linking to reference hypertext files and for converting the set of reference text files to reference hypertext files derived from the reference text files and linked among themselves and linked to the scene hypertext; a browser program operating within the computer for displaying interlinked hypertext files; and a set of display processing programs operating within the computer for adapting the presentation of interlinked hypertext files, wherein the database contains one or more data elements comprising attributes of each scene of a story and wherein the one or more data elements comprise for each scene: a scene title; a scene locale; a scene designator or identifier; the point of view from which the scene is rendered; the date and time of the scene within the narrative text; the copyright year of the writing of the scene; one or more keywords characterizing the scene; a designator of the chapter in which the scene appears; a designator of the section of the chapter in which the scene appears; the source file from which the scene text file is taken; the style of presentation required for the scene text; and the location or window of presentation required for the scene text file.
21. An apparatus for producing an electronic literary macramé of texts from a literary work, comprising: a computer, input means for the computer; display means for the computer; information storage and retrieval means for holding data and instructions for the computer; a repository for information connected to the computer; a set of files residing in the repository for information; a database program or spreadsheet program operating within the computer; a database supported by the database program or spreadsheet program for holding information concerning the characteristics of one or more scenes presented in the literary work; a set of processing control files residing in the repository for information, for linking the scenes of the literary work; a set of scene text files residing in the repository for information and containing the literary work; a set of reference text files residing in the repository for information and containing information supportive of the literary work; a set of link records residing in the repository for information and containing link information interconnecting the contents of the scene text files and reference text files; a set of utility programs and scripts operating within the computer for converting the set of scene text files into a set of scene hypertext files linking among scene text files of the literary work and linking to reference hypertext files and for converting the set of reference text files to reference hypertext files derived from the reference text files and linked among themselves and linked to the scene hypertext; a browser program operating within the computer for displaying interlinked hypertext files; and a set of display processing programs operating within the computer for adapting the presentation of interlinked hypertext files, wherein the database contains one or more data elements comprising attributes of each scene of a story and wherein the one or more data elements comprise for each scene: a scene title; a scene locale; a scene designator or identifier; the point of view from which the scene is rendered; the date and time of the scene within the narrative text; the copyright year of the writing of the scene; one or more keywords characterizing the scene; a designator of the chapter in which the scene appears; a designator of the section of the chapter in which the scene appears; the source file from which the scene text file is taken; the style of presentation required for the scene text; and the location or window of presentation required for the scene text file. 22. The apparatus of claim 21 wherein the repository for information comprises one or more of any combination of the following: one or more hard disk drives; one or more main random access memory (RAM) units; one or more removable flash memory units; and one or more removable disk units.