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Originally Posted by hardcastle
The sanctity of the written word is just as baffling. Any piece of literature is just one of many potential ways to tell a single story, with both meaningful and arbitrary choices made throughout the piece.
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That you believe literature and telling a story are the same thing tells me everything I need to know. Don't misunderstand; I'm not getting snooty about Litra-chur. I like getting told a story as much as the next person. I quite often read for story alone. But sometimes, I want a story told by someone whose word-choices and prose (and yes sometimes profanity) actually contributes something to the experience other than story comprehension alone.
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Originally Posted by hardcastle
Authors are not gods. Their works are not sacred, and quality is not objective.
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Never said (or thought) they were. I simply believe that their works are
their works--including the words used.
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Originally Posted by hardcastle
The reader has every right to do whatever the heck they want to that book when they buy it, excluding redistributing the work themselves.
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Agreed. One problem, though ... we can talk semantics all we want but when it boils down to legalities, it's at least arguable that the users of Clean Reader didn't buy a book.
But as eschwartz mentioned: with the integrated,
alterable ebook store gone... so go my complaints (the legal ones). The users of the Clean Reader app have my blessing to do whatever they want with their purchases (now that the onus to actually alter someone else's work has been properly shifted back to the end-user where it always belonged).