(And no, I never will acknowledge the actual name of it. I'm pretty sure from now on, I'm going to refer to it as Actively Annoy or Actively Infuriate even when talking to teachers.) 

I've used it a few times in the past, mostly in history classes, and even then it was bad. I started calling it "Actively Infuriate" in my head after the second time I had to use it. 

To start with-- having the text be black and the page it is shown on white, or vise versa, is traditional, and fine with me-- but adding another background behind the first that is quite aggressively the same color as the text is too far. If not done perfectly, at least, which is not how I would expect Actively Infuriate to have any chance of doing anything. Instead, they have somehow come up with the perfect amount of unneeded extra contrast to constantly draw my eyes to the edges and give me a headache; all with the excuse of comments-and-annotations. 

Next on the list, teachers get to stick questions in the middle of the text, which you of course cannot pass without answering. Due to various dubious formatting choices, said questions tend to take up at least half my screen to start with, and the ones that are type-an-answer rather than multiple choice never seem to be any less than a full screen by the time I am done. This would be reasonable, if it were not for the fact that there does not seem to be any way to hide (or in any way shrink) a question after you answer it. When I can finally view the rest of the text, I'd like to be able to read going from the end of the last section to the start of the next without an entire screen-sized question block in the middle, thank you very much! 

Once you get past the flaws with the intended designs, you start encountering various glitches. I won't list all of them that I have found, but the most memorable is one where I found scrolling would sometimes not move the text and the questions at the same rate, and therefore the text would, uncontrollably, wind up half-hidden behind the darn giant question blocks.

So, I never liked this abomination to start with, I'm sure you can tell.  

But now... the language arts department at my school has decided to use it to present a novel to us, and I have discovered that it is at least twice as annoying as I had thought. I'm generally a fairly rule-following kid, but, I think, if my teacher did not consider me trustworthy enough to read the story on paper and merely spend enough time on Actively Infuriate to answer the questions, I would be boycotting the class for the duration of this unit, consequences be damned. Compared to overexposure to Actively Annoy, threats of Saturday or summer school, or even flat-out failing the class, would be nothing. 

For example, there is... essentially a chapter-break feature that I didn't even know existed. The text is broken into sections (not that the questions don't do that well enough, nuisances that they are) and you have to click this arrow symbol to get to the next one. As far as I can tell, the table of contents in the section after the first such arrow does not have actual working links to the different chapters, and while I haven't actually tried clicking them or even looking very hard for a link, I did make sure to pass my cursor over the listed chapters to get a preliminary idea of that. So far, the answer seems to be that I will have to scroll and click and scroll and click and scroll and click and scroll EVERY SINGLE TIME I want to get back to where I was, which will be further and further each time. 

Save me. 

When I discovered that it did not, in any easily discernible way, save my place in regards to chapter, I was annoyed enough to literally hiss. 

Get me away from this before I go as mad as the Mad Hatter in a not-so-fun way. I am not easily made angry, but the things that do tend to be so much more grating for it.