Help for reading an e-book

A computer program product for sharing information related to passages from an electronic book, the computer program product comprising a non-transitory computer readable storage medium having program code embodied therewith, the program code readable and executable by one or more processors to perform a method comprising:

• opening an electronic book at a user-selected initial passage, wherein the electronic book is displayed to a user on an electronic book reader;
• defining a passage block within the electronic book, wherein the passage block starts at the user-selected initial passage and ends at a community-selected terminal passage, wherein the community-selected terminal passage is selected by members of a social community who have read the passage block;
• determining that members of the social community who have read the passage block have input a high incidence of incorrect answers to questions about the passage block, wherein the high incidence is greater than a predetermined value;
• automatically providing help to the user of the electronic book to whom the passage block has been displayed, wherein the help is information that members of the social community have deemed to be useful in correctly answering questions that had the high incidence of incorrect answers;
• and
• in response to the user of the electronic book reader taking longer than a predetermined amount of time to read the passage block, initiating a communication session between one or more members of the social community and the user, wherein the communication session enables the user to receive recommendations from the social community for understanding the passage block.

A computer system comprising:

• a processor, a computer readable memory, and a computer readable storage medium;
• first program instructions to open an electronic book at a user-selected initial passage, wherein the electronic book is displayed to a user on an electronic book reader;
• second program instructions to define a passage block within the electronic book, wherein the passage block starts at the user-selected initial passage and ends at a community-selected terminal passage, wherein the community-selected terminal passage is selected by members of a social community who have read the passage block;
• third program instructions to determine that members of the social community who have read the passage block have input a high incidence of incorrect answers to questions about the passage block, wherein the high incidence is greater than a predetermined value;
• fourth program instructions to automatically provide help to the user of the electronic book to whom the passage block has been displayed, wherein the help is information that members of the social community have deemed to be useful in correctly answering questions that had the high incidence of incorrect answers;
• and
• fifth program instructions, to in response to the user of the electronic book reader taking longer than a predetermined amount of time to read the passage block, initiate a communication session between one or more members of the social community and the user, wherein the communication session enables the user to receive recommendations from the social community for understanding the passage block;
• and wherein
• the first, second, third, fourth, and fifth program instructions are stored on the computer readable storage medium for execution by the processor via the computer readable memory.