Handheld computer game-playing systems and similar devices are here adapted for use as electronic readers for literature, specifically supporting complex literary and instructional forms, each a work of literature which is woven and knotted together using many threads of narrative in a nonlinear fashion supported only by programmable electronic systems such as computers. The reader experiences such electronic works on a handheld computing device using conventional Web-browser software supported by said device. The electronic work is adapted to any restrictions or special characteristics of the handheld device to facilitate its proper presentation and use.