article_snippet: It operates on a sliding scale from ‘clean’, which removes only the worst swear words, to ‘squeaky clean’ which even takes out ‘damn’.
article_snippet: Apps like Clean Reader change the text without the author’s permission. 'the author’s permission take the author’s’s words and replace the author’s permission – sometimes very clumsily – on the basis of some perceived idea of “bad words” versus “good words”. '
article_snippet: There’s now an app for taking the swearwords out of books.
article_snippet: The app has three settings, clean, cleaner and squeaky clean (left) that will blank out offensive words on a table reader.
article_snippet: The 'squeaky clean' setting will even cross out 'damn' and 'darn'
article_snippet: I’m sure the F-word isn’t the only thing that makes your books great!
article_snippet: We told their daughter that there was probably an app for this type of thing that would replace profanity with less offensive words and perhaps We should get their daughter
highlights_snippet: Software blocks offensive words in e-books, including the word 'damn' 