Hypertext is often defined as a new environment for navigating into information allowing an individualisation of the reading progress, a consideration of the user’s cognitive style and a better consideration of their expectancies. What we propose to study here is hypertext rather as a reflexion tool on our own experience of reading or of learning how to read. We will consider how reading, but especially creation of hyperdocuments, allows to raise question on the means of construction and appropriation of knowledge and how the outcome of the reflexion can, in turn, be invested in a pedagogical application focused on a social construction of knowledge implying a new relationship between the one whe does the training, the trainee and the docum...