"Quibbling" is a piece of interactive fiction by Carolyn Guyer, a computer-based narrative programmed on a specific hypertext platform (Storyspace) and designed for "harvesting" by the reader per mouse click. The reading experiment described in this essay is associated with earlier comparative media evaluations. Three reading tasks had to be performed: Compiling this narrative by reading; capturing certain phenomena and peculiarities in the reception process; deciphering also the effects of "technology." The experience of addressing the three reading problems and performing the three different kinds of reading (by subject; by traversing; by assembling) is described. The lesson learnt is that the decontextualization typical of hypertext entails a major reconstruction effort on the part of the reader for which the reader is indemnified by the author's poetic language.