I'd add that the bible ranges from dull to unparseable at points, and is generally a much harder read than the sequences if you want to actually understand what you're reading, but your point is a good one. We do need to boil the sequences down to something more accessible.

On of the things I'm thinking of doing with the parser is to make a sequences reader: It will start by giving you access to all the articles that have no internal dependencies, and as you read more articles, it will open up further new articles that are now accessible. It won't make the sequences any shorter to read, but the idea is that this should help manage the 'tab explosion' effect that people have been reporting.