[bookshare-discuss] Re: Adult Content Issue ... Again!
- From: "Darrell Shandrow" <darrell.shandrow@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: <bookshare-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Fri, 21 Mar 2008 09:42:48 -0700
Hello Kelby,
Though anything can be improved, I believe the "adult" label definitely
needs to remain in place. Libraries take reasonable actions to protect
children from content that is clearly inappropriate to their viewing in
accordance with community standards, and Bookshare should certainly be no
different in that regard with respect to children with print disabilities.
:-)
----- Original Message -----
From: "kelby carlson" <kelbycarlson@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <bookshare-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Friday, March 21, 2008 5:14 AM
Subject: [bookshare-discuss] Adult Content Issue ... Again!
Okay, so it's happened again and once more left me extremely
frustrated. A book that was just submitted "Witch Hunt: History
of a Persecution" has been categorized as having "adult content".
The witch hunts are a part of history that interest me, and I've
been looking for some good books on them. But no-enI can't have
this one no matter how good it might ,be because someone decided
to tag it with the lable "adult content". Doesn't say what kind
of adult content; whether its explicitsex, hate speegh graphic
violence, or what have you. I would like to be able to determine
for myself if a book contains adult content. But I can't unless
I read it. Really, I honestly think this adult content label
just needs to be dropped. It's almost kept me from reading a
couple of really good books that got mislabeled.
Okay, rant is done.
Kelby
Doomed Dragon
It is quite easy for me to think of a God of love mainly because
I grew up in a family where love was central and where lovely
relationships were ever present. It is quite easy for me to
think of the universe as basically friendly mainly because of my
uplifting hereditary and environmental circumstances. It is
quite easy for me to lean more toward optimism than pessimism
about human nature mainly because of my childhood experiences.
It is impossible to get at the roots of one's religious attitudes
without taking in account the psychological and historical
factors that play upon the individual.
--Martin Luther King, Jr.
If the people who started wars didn't make them sacred, who
would be foolish enough to fight?
--Rhett Butler
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