The invention relates to a method and arrangement for reading hypertext pages especially on mobile phone display screens. A device is provided with a program which "understands" some basic rules of written language such as punctuation, conjunctives connecting parts of sentences, and the direction of reading. A low-resolution display (300) is divided into a navigation pane (320) and read pane (330). The selected hypertext page is decoded, and an overall view thereof, preprocessed in a predetermined manner, is brought into the navigation pane. A length of text cut off according to the said rules is brought at a time into the read pane from the area indicated by a cursor (310). The text is so short that it is easily readable as far as the size of the characters is concerned. The device has predefined key functions to move forward or backward in the text one step at a time or by skipping text passages if desired. The words displayed at a time on the display constitute a factual entity or at least belong to the same factual entity, whereby the reading of the text on the hypertext page is easy despite the limitations of the display. The invention may also be used for data searching in a relatively large mass of information.