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Old 03-29-2015, 09:08 PM   #147
JSWolf
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Originally Posted by HarryT View Post
Nobody needs to "authorise" it. If you're reading a book out loud to your children, you don't need the author's permission to alter words that you feel would be unsuitable for them. This is exactly the same. Seems to be making a mountain out of a molehill to me; nobody is being forced to use this app who doesn't wish to do so.
When a parent is reading a book to his/her child and making the edits as the book is being read, that's OK. That's the parent taking an interest in the child's reading. That's the parent making the choice which words are changed and into what. That's not some app changing words. The way the app does it, the child is going to want to know what the words are that they aren't being shown. The way I look at it is that if a child isn't ready for such words, then the child isn't read for that book full stop. Help the child pick out a book that he/she is ready for.
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