1. A computer-executed method to facilitate directed reading of a selected portion of an original document by a recipient, comprising: creating a transfer document based at least on the original document and the selected portion, wherein the transfer document, when viewed by the recipient, enables the following operations: opening the transfer document to the selected portion without requiring manual navigation to the selected portion; highlighting the selected portion; obscuring a context surrounding the selected portion based at least on a distance metric from the selected portion; and directly navigating from one highlighted portion to another highlighted portion in the transfer document without requiring manual navigation within obscured contexts; and sending the transfer document to the recipient.