Abstract: This invention relates to digital reading applications—specifically the ability to discuss documents contextually, in real time or asynchronously, in a virtual space within a document. The preferred embodiment of this method allows for discussions to take place inline, in parallel, or in any fashion wherein user conversations can be tied to the user's location within a document. This method has two possible core modules: a program that allows a free-flowing real-time conversation between people filtered according to relationship between the portion of the document they are looking at and the portion others are looking at (one embodiment of this could be an instant messaging program), and a context-based comment and response system linked to selections or parts or elements of the document (and taking place in real-time or archived formats), with the ability to make those comments visible relative to a user's motion through the document.