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Originally Posted by HarryT
Is there no way to load your own content into the app?
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There is. This is from Nate's blog:
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I can also report that Clear Reader for the iPad will let you sideload Epub ebooks. I tried with a DRM-free title, and then applied the filters.
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http://the-digital-reader.com/2015/0...ng-experience/
Perhaps it isn't possible to sideload DRM-infested content into the app, though.
@BWinmill: Sorry, but comparing the protests against the app to censorship doesn't make any sense at all. Nobody banned or lobbied to ban the app. Some authors said they didn't want their books to be sold through the app - how on earth is that censorship? The app is still there, anybody can get it and sideload books into it (non-DRMed ones at least). I bet they are working on making DRMed books sideloadable right now.
As I said before, while I find the app silly, I can't get too worked up about it. There will always be silly people who think there are words that are dirty per se and try to keep their children from them. What those people will never get is that nothing makes more curious than taboo. Children whose parents inflict that app on them will know more "dirty" words in the end than the others.
Of course there is the Christian fundamentalist bias deplored by some of the complaining authors. That's a problem, obviously, but can anybody seriously think that parents who buy such an app wouldn't transmit their prejudices to their children without the app as well?
So, in a word: totally silly app, but I can't really see it doing much harm.