Enhanced Scrollytelling with Scroll-State Queries

Read you a story? What fun would that be? I’ve got a better idea: let’s tell a story together.

— Photopia by Adam Cadre

Scrolling might seem like a modern reading method compared to turning book pages, but it actually dates back to ancient Egypt, predating what we consider books today. This concept stems from how ancient physical scrolls, the first editable text form in writing history, were read. As a Jewish person, I recall my first non-digital scrolling experience was with the Torah, and it can be more immersive than scrolling a webpage. The physical actions involved in navigating texts have inspired many storytellers, leading authors to gamify the act of turning pages and create stories that incorporate the physical actions of opening a book and turning pages as part of the narrative. However, innovative experiences using non-standard scrolling have not been explored as thoroughly.

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