PAGE-BASED ELECTRONIC BOOK READING WITH COMMUNITY INTERACTION SYSTEM AND METHOD

摘要

A system and method is presented for the web-based reading of books.Users of the system access books page-by-page through a computerizedweb server, with a social community oriented around each book beingpresented in conjunction with the book. Data is maintained in a databaserelating to user, author, and publisher additions to the book-orientedsocial community. At least a portion of these additions are associated withparticular pages in the book. These page-specific additions are madeavailable to the user only when the user has reached the particular pageassociated with the addition. A listing of other users currently reading thesame page, or nearby pages, is presented to the user, allowing interactionswith other users to be controlled according to the specific page being readby the user.