Ultrabenosaurus
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For those who don't know, X-Ray is a Kindle feature that tracks character and terminology usage throughout a book. When you open X-Ray inside a book it'll show the characters / things on the current page along with their definitions / descriptions and some stats on their prevalence throughout the book. Selecting one of those will give you a more in-depth explanation of them and let you zoom around to any and all places they are mentioned elsewhere.
https://www.methodshop.com/2017/07/amazon-kindle-x-ray.shtml
I don't know how Amazon's X-Ray feature actually works, it could be an AI or some super awesome algorithm that does everything automatically. This is not what I'm suggesting.
I think that Scribble Hub would benefit from this sort of feature as it isn't on any other reading site I've found yet. Anything the author adds to their story's Glossary tab would be "indexed" by SH throughout all chapters, perhaps with a fuzzy highlight or underline on actual chapter pages. Users can then click things in the Glossary to see all places they're mentioned and jump to those points in the story (with SH scrolling to the appropriate part of a chapter page automatically). If highlighted within each chapter, clicking once or hovering should load a short description with a link to the full "X-Ray page" for that character / term.
For stories with a lot of important characters, or which update slowly, this would be an incredible help to readers for keeping track of things and getting back into a story after some absence or hiatus.
https://www.methodshop.com/2017/07/amazon-kindle-x-ray.shtml
I don't know how Amazon's X-Ray feature actually works, it could be an AI or some super awesome algorithm that does everything automatically. This is not what I'm suggesting.
I think that Scribble Hub would benefit from this sort of feature as it isn't on any other reading site I've found yet. Anything the author adds to their story's Glossary tab would be "indexed" by SH throughout all chapters, perhaps with a fuzzy highlight or underline on actual chapter pages. Users can then click things in the Glossary to see all places they're mentioned and jump to those points in the story (with SH scrolling to the appropriate part of a chapter page automatically). If highlighted within each chapter, clicking once or hovering should load a short description with a link to the full "X-Ray page" for that character / term.
For stories with a lot of important characters, or which update slowly, this would be an incredible help to readers for keeping track of things and getting back into a story after some absence or hiatus.