In addition, there is no way that we can relabel all 170000 books
currently in the collection to reflect what kind of language they
contain or if there is violence and sex. I suppose, if you really,
really cared, you could create a program that counts every instance
of swear words, and would insert some kind of label such as "strong
language" into the book's metadata, say the short or long
description, based on the number of times it found "obscene" words
in the text, but why do that? If our experience is to mirror that of
the able-eyed user at a bookstore or library, adding such labels
would be counterproductive to that goal, since the sighted don't
have giant stickers on their books that say that a book has swearing
and sex. And such a program would only work for strong language,
since different writers use different words to describe violent and
sexual situations. Your best bet if you're sensative and want your
books to be free of that kind of thing is to read reviews and
excerpts rather than make everyone else do the work for you. On 10-Nov-12 12:51, Roger Loran Bailey wrote: I will say this again. There is no way possible to know that you will not like a book until you read it. You might get an idea by reading reviews and listening to people discuss books, but you will not actually know until you try it. You should also not expect other people to filter your books for you. Their opinions of what you will or will not like may not be the same as your own opinions. For that reason I would suggest that books just be submitted in the same manner as any other book no matter what kind of language they might contain. If a proofreader turns out to not like it then that proofreader can just release it. |