[bksvol-discuss] Re: e: Re: Accessing Adult-rated books; was Ann Coulter Books
- From: Grandma Cindy <popularplace@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Fri, 28 Dec 2007 23:54:03 -0800 (PST)
The submitter can put in the comments section whether
he/she considers it as deserving an Adult rating. We
validators get those comments; it's the comments
section on p. 2 that go directly to the administrator.
I know some people have posted when they've submitted
a book with sex or violence. I don't mind sex; violent
rape (as opposed to seduction) bothers me and I'd
probably avoid validating a book like that. If I
hadn't scanned The Love Slave in response to someone's
request (back when I was scanning) I'd never have
discovered Bertrice Small as an author.
G.Cindy
--- robert tweedy <roberttweedy@xxxxxxx> wrote:
> We need to know what bookshare's policy is towards
> adult content in reguards to parents, The tool rates
> the adult content but we can over ride it so if that
> is the case, we shouldn't have to rate it anyway. I
> think though we should have a way to see if the
> books have an adult rating before we start on the
> process of cleaning them up. Some like them some
> don't, maybe there could be a heading for adult or
> something on the page.
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> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Carrie Karnos
> To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Sent: Saturday, December 29, 2007 12:27 AM
> Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: e: Re: Accessing
> Adult-rated books; was Ann Coulter Books
>
>
> Well, I think there are other things that make
> books deserve an adult content rating besides
> graphic sex. I put in a book about true-life
> cannibalism that was pretty graphic, so I slapped an
> adult content label on it. Another book that didn't
> have graphic sex but got an adult content rating
> from me was Hustling: The Gentleman's Guide to the
> Fine Art of Homosexual Prostitution. We don't need
> kiddies or teens reading either of those. But there
> certainly are a lot of books with adult content
> ratings that need to be de-adulted (if you know what
> I mean).
>
> Carrie
>
>
> ----- Original Message ----
> From: robert tweedy <roberttweedy@xxxxxxx>
> To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Sent: Friday, December 28, 2007 9:48:32 PM
> Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: e: Re: Accessing
> Adult-rated books; was Ann Coulter Books
>
> G Cindy I agree. I can think of a series where to
> me I wouldn't consider it
> adult and That is the Calder series, the sex isn't
> that graphic, now the
> book I am scanning by Rosemary Rogers, it is verry
> graphic which involves
> rape, Sweet Savage Love, some of the scenes are
> graphic and I don't like
> violence against women so it is taking a little
> time to get through plus the
> book is 23 years old and is the hard cover
> edition. So the pages must be a
> little yellowed.
> Skype contact bobwichitaks phone 316-524-5454
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Grandma Cindy" <popularplace@xxxxxxxxx>
> To: <bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Sent: Friday, December 28, 2007 11:05 PM
> Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: e: Re: Accessing
> Adult-rated books; was Ann
> Coulter Books
>
>
> > It is true that the system has been in place
> since the
> > beginning, but you point out here problems that
> exist.
> > For as long as I can remember, people have been
> asking
> > what exactly should be rated "Adult." Knowing
> that
> > there are members who do not like to read books
> with
> > profanity and/or obscenity and/or graphic
> violence,
> > some of us rated these Adult. Then we receive
> word
> > from several official sources that that if the
> book
> > would be in an Adult bookstore or in the Adult
> section
> > of a video rental place, that should be the
> criterion.
> > To me, that says that only books with
> graphically
> > described sex would be considered Adult.
> >
> > I think Kelby's idea of being more specific in
> the
> > synopsis about whether there is profanity,
> obscenity,
> > graphic violence, rape, torture, explicit sex is
> a
> > good one. That way a would-be reader would know
> if
> > he/she wants to read the book or not, or wants
> to
> > allow his teenager to read the book. I've been
> doing
> > that rather than rating books Adult, unless
> there is
> > explicit sex.
> >
> > Or perhaps instead of a general Adult rating we
> could
> > use the movie ratings--G, PG (is that right?), R
> and
> > X. But still not disallow access to the books,
> i.e.,
> > allow everyone to find a book whether hey
> remember to
> > log in or not.
> >
> > G.Cindy
> >
> > P.S. What is there in the Ann Coulter books that
> cause
> > them to be rated Adult? Curious minds want to
> know.
> > P.P.S. There's something wrong with the BS
> automatic
> > rating if children's picture books are rated
> Adult, as
> > some of them have been.
> >
> >
> >
> > --- robert tweedy <roberttweedy@xxxxxxx> wrote:
> >
> >> The system has been in place since bookshare
> started
> >> and now there are a lot
> >> of readers that don't like adult matterial and
> it is
> >> up to the submitter
> >> whether the book should be adult or not plus if
> the
> >> system see a lot of
> >> words that are consider, a certain percentage
> anyway
> >> it makes the book
> >> adult.
> >> Skype contact bobwichitaks phone 316-524-5454
> >> ----- Original Message -----
> >> From: "kelby carlson"
> <kelbycarlson@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
> >> To: <bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> >> Sent: Friday, December 28, 2007 9:14 PM
> >> Subject: [bksvol-discuss] e: Re: Accessing
> >> Adult-rated books; was Ann
> >> Coulter Books
> >>
> >>
> >> > Thing is, they probably won't. I don't want
> to
> >> read adult rated books.
> >> > However, I do not think the Ann Coulter books
> (and
> >> a few others I could
> >> > bring up) should be adult rated. That is my
> real
> >> complaint here. In my
> >> > opinion, that system should just be discarded
> >> entirely. If the submitter
> >> > feels the book is adult in nature s/he should
> put
> >> a note in the synopsis
> >> > for the discerning browser.
> >> >
> >> > Kelby
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