I wish there was a way for me to read stories without all the distractions of the game cards, character avatars, commentary, etc. on the page. I think it would be very beneficial to have a better way to read a story in its entirety than the way in which the game is structured to be played. The play style works great for playing...but not as well for reading. Reading is best when it is immersive and distraction free. The current setup on the page does not support this well.

I can give you an example of how a Reading View would work. On my Amazon Kindle HDX, when I view webpages through the Amazon Silk web-browser, i have a button for Reading View on any text heavy webpage. Silk attempts to create a text only version of that page that looks very much like how ebooks look on the Kindle platform. The content is from the webpage, but stylized like an ebook. I use this when I want to read through Storium rather than play through Storium. The only negative to this function is that it only lets me use the Reading View in Silk on the current page. Thus, I don't get the entire story...only the current chapter and scene.

I've come across some incredible worlds and intensive writing in Storium. I have had hours of fun playing it now and have little negative to say about the "playing" experience. I wish there was a simple means to improve the "reading" experience by making it more book like.