Hi everyone. Am developing a website for kids where they can read books online and connect with other kids from around the world. ive designed the part of the website that gives information as to what the whole project is all about and i also have an open source social networking module or script installed to use for the interaction part of the project. but my main issue now is with the reading aspect. a section where they can read books online when they log in. but i dont know what to do or which approach to take to achieve that. i dont know if theres any open source script out there that i can just install on my web server, edit and use for such. please any idea will be greatly appreciated.
You should definitely use BuddyPress for WordPress. There are a lot of plugins out there that can help you achieve that functionality.
You can use forum software for that and add each chapter as a different post in a thread. This way they can easily remember where were they and also open a new thread to ask question about the book. Otherways if you just want to add texts, any CMS that offers private pages(only logged in people can see them) will do. What is the extension of your books? TXT, epub,mobi, pdf?