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Originally Posted by JSWolf
I feel sometimes the themes of the books can be more important than these words.
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I always feel that way.
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The problem is this app only handles these words. It doesn't handle the book that these words are in.
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I like that. The child can read a book that challenges their parent's values.
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You can describe things that are unsuitable for children in a way that this app won't change a single word.
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Hmm.
I think there are very few pure-text eBooks that are unsuitable for children.
A book on how to make explosives would be an exception. Hopefully such are not available as eBooks. If I am wrong, I request this not be disproved in a public forum.
Maybe if I read the Fifty Shades series, I would consider those harmful to children.
Some books I read would bore most children. But I can't think of any that would be positively harmful.
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Parents should take an active part in what there kids read.
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Maybe this works if the child is weak-willed. I consistently declined to read what my parents suggested, and took out of the library what I wanted.
Parents should pick their battles. So long as a pure-text book is available for free from the library, whether a paper book or an eBook, stopping the child from reading it seems to me a poor battle to pick. And if the parent has the opposite problem (child doesn't like to read), stopping the child from reading one of the few books he or she is willing to read seems to me an equally poor strategy.
Also, a lot of parents can't do a good job of interpreting literature. So if they tried to take an active part, they might easily bollix up the job. Think of some of the overly literal critical readings of Harry Potter. Better they run books through Clean Reader and not overthink what was missed.