Interactive digital experience for a literary work

One or more computer storage media with device-executable instructions that, when executed by a computing system, direct the computing system to:

• provide an interactive service to a first user, the interactive service being related to a literary work;
• maintain a recorded position of the first user along a storyline within the interactive service, the storyline within the interactive service corresponding to a storyline within the literary work;
• receive user generated content generated by the first user;
• store the user generated content generated by the first user in a data store, the user generated content generated by the first user being stored with an associated position reference corresponding to the first user's recorded position along the storyline within the interactive service when the user generated content generated by the first user was generated;
• and
• display user generated content generated by a second user to the first user based at least on the first user's recorded position along the storyline within the interactive service and a position reference associated with the user generated content generated by the second user, the position reference associated with the user generated content generated by the second user representing a position different from a current position of the first user when the user generated content generated by the second user is displayed to the first user.

A system comprising one or more servers, each server comprising a processor and a memory, and wherein the memories of the one or more servers comprise device-executable instructions which when executed cause the system to:

• provide an interactive service to a user, the interactive service being related to a literary work;
• maintain a recorded position of the user along a storyline within the interactive service;
• receive user generated content from the user;
• store the user generated content received in a data store, the user generated content being stored with an associated position reference corresponding to the recorded position of the user along the storyline when the user generated content was generated;
• and
• display user generated content generated by one or more other users to the user based at least on position references of the displayed user generated content not exceeding the recorded position of the user, at least one position reference associated with the displayed user generated content being different from the recorded position of the user when the user generated content is displayed to the user.