[bksvol-discuss] Re: For wish list: more books by Elie Weisel
- From: Cindy <popularplace@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Sat, 27 Mar 2010 14:30:55 -0700 (PDT)
It isn't just for children; there are also adult readers who don't like to read
books that contain obscenities or violence or explicit sex or --now the word
escapes me, but those that use irreligious words when swearing. Like Lynn, I
put a warning in the long synopsis
Cindy
Wish List (i.e., books wanted added to the collection) and books-being-scanned
list available at sites below
Wish List: https://wiki.benetech.org/display/BSO/Bookshare+Wish+List
Books Being Scanned List:
https://wiki.benetech.org/display/BSO/Books+Being+Scanned+List
--- On Sat, 3/27/10, gwen tweedy <gstweedy@xxxxxxx> wrote:
> From: gwen tweedy <gstweedy@xxxxxxx>
> Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: For wish list: more books by Elie Weisel
> To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Date: Saturday, March 27, 2010, 10:11 AM
> I agree with Valerie on this one.
> I know if I had a child now, I would appreciate those
> boundaries. If I had a child I would prefer that I knew what
> they were getting, before they got it.
> Some are more free. It doesn't bother them what their
> children get hold of, that is cool that is between parent
> and child. I guess for me I was brought up differently I am
> just not able to stray from those ideals.
> Gwen
>
> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Roger Loran Bailey"
> <rogerbailey81@xxxxxxx>
> To: <bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Sent: Saturday, March 27, 2010 11:55 AM
> Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: For wish list: more books by
> Elie Weisel
>
>
> > I think it's silly to suggest that reading a word
> might be a risk to young readers. I suppose the hospitals
> are filled with young people who were severely injured by
> hearing a word on the street, which is something that nearly
> all of them do every day. Let's face it, the adult
> designation is not there to protect anybody. It is there for
> censorship.
> >
> >
> > _ _ _
> >
> > "As a woman I have no country. As a woman my country
> is the world"
> > Virginia Woolf
> >
> > The Militant:
> > http://www.themilitant.com
> > Pathfinder Press:
> > http://www.pathfinderpress.com
> > Granma International:
> > http://www.granma.cu/ingles/index.html
> > ----- Original Message ----- From: "Valerie Maples"
> <vlmaples@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > To: <bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > Sent: Saturday, March 27, 2010 1:25 AM
> > Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: For wish list: more
> books by Elie Weisel
> >
> >
> > Someone told us that there is an actual standard
> because of the grant that rates books based on word
> frequencies and situations that cause them to generate the
> adult material designation. I do believe the F. word is one
> of the ones that is considered serious and is an automatic
> designation. A series of moderate occurrences can also
> generate the adult designation. It makes sense that there
> would be a criterion with so many books being available to
> young readers so that it would remove accidental
> inappropriate downloads.
> >
> > Having said that, apparently there were a couple of
> books that could find no reason for those designations,
> those they allowed a proofreader to remove it if there was
> absolutely no risk to young readers. I'm not trying to start
> a controversy here, just state what I was told how the adult
> designation came to be utilized. As a parent, even though
> Nichole is not completely independent in downloading, I am
> grateful that there is some boundary. It is easy enough for
> a child to get an exemption with parental approval.
> >
> > Valerie
> >
> >
> > On Mar 26, 2010, at 11:59 PM, Jamie Yates, CPhT
> wrote:
> >
> >> Some books get marked as adult because the
> proofreader finds the material to be very sensitive. I only
> mark books adult if they are sexually graphic but often
> Bookshare takes and marks my books adult for me. I find the
> Penny Warner books about the small town newspaper reporter
> who is deaf always get marked adult because she is fond of
> the f word. Her sex scenes are always very very very bland
> so it isn't the few and far between sex scenes, it has to be
> her colorful language.
> >>
> >> I've scanned many other books which Bookshare
> automatically marked adult and as the scanner I cannot
> unmark it. Only the proofreader can do it.
> >>
> >> I'm told that many Elie Weisel books are now
> required reading in high schools these days so probably
> Bookshare should be made aware of the situation so they can
> assess it.
> >
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