[bksvol-discuss] Re: Wishlist Request
- From: Cindy <popularplace@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Thu, 3 Sep 2009 12:34:25 -0700 (PDT)
chuckle. I enjoyed it. I'm sure the people who lived in that time period
enjoyed the satire. grin
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 Thu, 9/3/09, Bob <rwiley@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
From: Bob <rwiley@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: Wishlist Request
To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Date: Thursday, September 3, 2009, 2:56 AM
Not exactly true.
I read half of "the rape of the locke" before I
knew I hated it.
One word can make a difference. Absolutely no rape
scene in that book.
Bob
“We know the future will outlast all of us, but I believe that all of us
will live on in the future we make,”
Senator Edward M. Kennedy
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From:
Rogerbailey81@xxxxxxx
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Sent: Tuesday, September 01, 2009 11:33
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Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: Wishlist
Request
Well, if a book is inappropriate for a
ten-year-old then that ten-year-old will undoubtedly get bored with it or
fail
to understand it and will stop reading it. If the ten-year-old is interested
in it and finishes it then it must be appropriate. Obviously that which is
inappropriate for some ten-year-olds is appropriate for other ten-year-olds
just like books that are appropriate for some forty-year-olds and which those
forty-year-olds will devour will be completely inappropriate for other
forty-year-olds who will be completely bored by the content. The point is
that
the only person who can decide the appropriateness of a book is the person
who
chooses to read it or not read it. What gets under my skin is when someone
decides for another person what is appropriate or inappropriate. Let the
ten-year-olds, the sixteen-year-olds and the eighty-year-olds and every other
age range decide for themselves.
"The end may justify the means as long as there is something that
justifies the end.
" Leon Trotsky
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Of course I see
other issues with such a designation, especially with
how it is set up as a
one-size on-off. There are lots of books that
are entirely
inappropriate for a 10 year old, far far fewer for a 16
or 17 year
old. I'm not sure there is anything purely text that would
produce
the reaction in me that the proofing guide uses when talking
about such a
teen.
On 9/1/09, Rogerbailey81@xxxxxxx <Rogerbailey81@xxxxxxx>
wrote:
> That could be part of the problem too, but I am suddenly
reminded of a
> funny story. I said that the censor types insist on
imposing their own
> tastes on
> everyone else. Actually, now that
I think about it, it may not even be
> their own tastes. There was a guy
I once knew who was an official at my
> city's
> most prominent
Presbyterian church. He wasn't a minister and I don't know
> exactly
what he was, but he had his own private office in the church and he
>
absolutely never appeared in public wearing anything but a gray suit and
a
> neck
> tie. He was the pillar of the community type. Now,
obviously, this is not
> the kind of person I would hang out with. I
only knew him barely and that
> was
> only because I knew his
daughter a lot better. She was a much more regular
> kind of person. She
could party for one thing. Her father's idea of partying
> was probably
a stiff formal dinner with the city fathers. Well, the time
> came when
I got a job as a sales clerk in a porn shop and suddenly he had a
> pair
of automobile floor mats that he wanted to give me. Not only that, but
>
he
> wanted to deliver them to me at my place of employment. I assure
you, he
> could have given them to me elsewhere quite easily or even
transmitted them
> to
> me through his daughter. When he came into
the shop it was all I could do
> to keep from bursting out laughing. He
was trying his best to look
> nonchalant
> and appear to ignore
the wares on display, but I could see his eyes darting
> around and he
was nearly salivating. The mats were obviously an excuse to
> check out
the interior of a porn shop. I even felt a little sorry for him. I
> am
sure that he really wanted to open up some of the magazines or watch
some
> of the videos, but the mats did not provide an excuse for that
and he
> couldn't come up with an excuse. In retrospect I wonder what he
would have
> said
> if I had offered to show him some of those
things. Now the issue never came
> up, but I knew him and his type well
enough that I am sure that if, for
> example, someone had proposed a
city ordinance to shut the store down for
> "indecency" that he would
most likely have been all for such an ordinance.
> So, yes,
>
censorship is the practice of imposing one's own tastes on everyone
else,
> but it is also the practice of imposing the tastes that one
wants everyone
> to
> think one has on everyone
else.
>
>
> "The end may justify the means as long as there
is something that justifies
> the end.
> " Leon
Trotsky
>
>
The Militant: http://www.themilitant.com Pathfinder Press:
>
http://www.pathfinderpress.com
> Granma International:
http://granma.cu/ingles/index.html
>
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> The problem is that because this
rating has such a low threshold, and the
> submitter cannot change it,
that if a book gets one of those quick proofing
> jobs,
> the
proof reader may not even check the rating. So the books get into the
>
collection with an adult rating because the submitter can't change it,
and
> the
> proofer may not bother to check.
>
>
Evan
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>
> From:
> Rogerbailey81@xxxxxxx
>
>
To:
> bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
>
> Sent: Tuesday,
September 01, 2009 9:27 PM
>
> Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re:
Wishlist Request
>
> I think it is both, but since at least the
proofreader can change that
> designation I think it is mostly the
latter. The censorship mind set is
> inherently
> a mind set that
insists on imposing one's own tastes on everyone else. It
> is known by
various names including self-righteousness,
>
holier-than-thou-ness,
> arrogance and imperiousness.
>
>
"The end
> may justify the
means as long as there is something that justifies the end.
> " Leon
Trotsky
>
>
The
Militant:
> http://www.themilitant.com
> Pathfinder Press:
>
http://www.pathfinderpress.com
> Granma International:
>
http://granma.cu/ingles/index.html
>
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[bksvol-discuss] Re: Wishlist Request
> Date:
> 9/1/2009 9:03:30
PM Eastern Daylight Time
> From:
>
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> The adult content scan must have
an incredibly low threshold. That or
> there are submitters who
think no child/teen should read anything more
> risque than Nancy
Drew.
>
> On 9/1/09, gwen tweedy <gstweedy@xxxxxxx>
wrote:
>> Speaking of books to add to series,
>> I hope one
day
>> they get book 3 I can't for the life of me think of what
it is
>> but they have Independence and the last in the 4 is Origon
in the Wagons
>> west series by Dana Fuller Ross,
>> There
are several messing,
>> and to get them whenever is
cool,
>> but you actually need the 3rd book to make at least
the first 4
> complete.
>>
>> ----- Original Message
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>> From: "Kelby Carlson"
<kelbycarlson@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
>> To:
<bookshare-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>;
<bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>> Sent: Tuesday, September 01,
2009 6:41 PM
>> Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Wishlist
Request
>>
>>
>>> Dear
Booksharians,
>>>
>>> I would like to request the
following be added to the collection:
>>>
>>> The
Wolves of the Calla (The Dark Tower, Book 5)
>>>
>>>
It's the only one in this series that is missing, and I'd really like
to
>>> read
it.
>>>
>>>
>>>
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