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Originally Posted by JSWolf
The way to handle this is to have the app scan for the possibly offensive words so the the parents can see what's in the book before the child reads it. Then if the parents don't feel it's appropriate, then they can just not allow their child to read the book until they are older and/or more mature. That's a much better solution then to bastardize the book. It could change the meaning and as pointed out by Joanne Harris...
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/cele...in-novels.html
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I find myself shocked to say,
in this, I concur with Wolfie. Now, THAT makes sense--a "pre-screening" app, so that parents can see and assess and discuss the possibly-objectionable content with their kids (or whatever). I mean...I don't love the idea, stem-to-stern, but I do realize that parents may be somewhat overburdened these days with all the content. I can't find a single objection to this idea, not in my head, anyway.
My sole complaint is about the fact that "someone else," e.g., CleanReader, DECIDES what is objectionable, and DECIDES what to replace the content WITH. Who the hell knows what contextually, they are doing to the work? And, not to be all OCD or whatever, but shouldn't parents KNOW and be familiar with what their kids are reading?
Hell, we ALL skim certain things. I know I skimmed the mountain-traversing stuff in Eiger Sanction. I skimmed his detailed spelunking bits in Shibumi. These are two that come immediately to mind. And I've been known to blow right past what I consider to be ridiculously overdone sex scenes in books, just because I find them boring or worse, they start to make me laugh--which usually isn't the writer's intent. (Nothing worse than trying to read the description of a three-way from an author who has OBVIOUSLY never done one!!).
Hitch