Patent ID: 7477870

Claim:
An online reading system comprising: a computer-displayed graphical representation of a plurality of pages of an online storybook corresponding to at least two plot lines, each page corresponding to each plot line including one or more of text and an image; a customization mechanism configured to allow the user to customize the storybook by including at least one physical attribute of the user in an image and by including at least one attribute of the user in the text, such that when the customization mechanism is used, at least one page includes text that includes at least one attribute of the user and at least one page includes a representation of the user by providing an image correlated with the text and represented with a physical attribute of the user including hair; a navigation mechanism configured to allow a user to navigate through selected pages of the storybook corresponding to one of the plot lines each time the user accesses the reading system, the navigation mechanism being further configured to allow the user to navigate through pages corresponding to a different one of the at least two plot lines with each successive use of the system and save the user's history of accessing each plot line until the user has navigated through pages corresponding to all of the plot lines; wherein at least one of the images is an animated image, and wherein animation of the animated image is selectively triggered by the user,