Read Books That Respond to Your Journey
Storyliner keeps the familiar rhythm of reading a book while giving digital stories room to do more. Readers can follow changing plotlines, see the journey they have uncovered, and understand unfamiliar English words without leaving the original text.
These tools stay close to the book. They support the reading experience instead of turning it into a stream of lessons, popups, or disconnected activities.
Read books with reader choices
Some Storyliner books contain more than one possible plotline. When the story reaches a fork, the available continuations appear directly after the chapter content. Each choice describes a direction the story can take.
The selected continuation becomes part of that reader's journey. In a Regular book, the reader has access to every plotline and can restart the story to discover where different decisions lead. In a Single-path only book, each decision becomes part of one locked journey, creating a reading experience shaped by that reader's choices.
Follow the Living Story Map
The Living Story Map, shortened to Story Map in the Reader, shows how the current journey develops through the book. Reached chapters appear as connected nodes, while unexplored directions remain behind fog.
The map helps readers remember where they have been and understand how one choice led to the next. It reveals the shape of the journey without exposing chapters the reader has not reached.
Read English with an inline personalized dictionary
The Storyliner Translation Tool works as an inline personalized dictionary. It keeps the author's English text in place and displays help for words the reader is not expected to know.
What appears depends on the reader's selected language, assessed English level, and personal vocabulary. Common words the reader is likely to know stay unobtrusive. Less familiar words can show a translation directly with the text, reducing the need to stop reading and search elsewhere.
This is not a translated edition of the book and it is not contextual sentence translation. The original sentences remain the material the reader reads and learns from.
Teach the dictionary what you know
Readers can adjust the help they receive:
- choose another curated meaning when the first translation is not suitable;
- add a personal translation for their own reading;
- mark a word as learned so its inline translation disappears;
- mark a word as unknown when help should be shown again;
- change the active language pair or turn inline assistance off for a book.
The result becomes more personal over time: support remains available for unfamiliar vocabulary while known words stop interrupting the page.
Build your personal library
The Books page combines Storyliner's public library with the reader's personal library. Books added to the personal library remain at the top, followed by the rest of the public catalog.
Before a reader opens a book, its card can show the author's Book annotation: a short introduction that helps the reader understand what the book offers.
Each book card has an add or remove icon for organizing the personal list. The My library filter narrows the Books page to those selected books, while the Reading, Not read, and Read filters help readers return to a particular stage of their library.
Preview and buy books
Paid books can be bought with the Buy button on the book card. When an author provides free chapters, readers can also begin reading first. Reaching the end of the last free chapter opens the purchase step before the next chapter.
The refund rules depend on the preview available when the book was bought:
- a book that offered free chapters is not eligible for a reader-requested refund because those chapters provided an opportunity to evaluate it before buying;
- a book bought without free chapters may be refunded within 14 days only while the reader has completed less than 30% of its chapters;
- draft-book purchases are non-refundable.
Keep the book at the center
Reader controls provide access to the table of contents, Story Map, reading settings, and saved position. Rich illustrations remain still until movement is appropriate. Translation assistance can be ignored when it is not needed.
Together, these features support three kinds of reading without splitting them into different applications: following a conventional book, exploring a story with choices, and strengthening English vocabulary through sustained reading.
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