I have to say that I rather like that the sex scenes are actually plot-relevant, rather than just "hey, they like each other... see? See?". And even better (to me), they're subtly so. On the downside, yeah, it does require posts like this, for those that don't want to read the sex. (This may or may not be an actual downside.)
This actually seems like an area in which the ebook industry has failed. You were talking to me, some time back, about making versions of the book available that were, uh, porn-free (because it's ebook and print-on-demand, so it doesn't really cost extra). I don't know if you still want to do those, but it seems like to me it would be pretty easy for ebook creators/devices to basically have a setting which is "show porn" or "show replacement text", and allow the ebook to include both, and only have the correct one displayed.
It wouldn't even have to be "porn" or "no porn", you could have (say) a sex-ed book where you could set the reader's age (8, 10, 12, teen, adult, grandpa), and it would include or elide content based on that setting. "With profanity" or "without profanity". "Original release" or "now with 6 sentences of bonus content" release. This really seems like it would have a lot of potential use, without a lot of overhead.
(Literally, you could implement it with existing CSS code, and a menu to let you pick which of a few choices you want. You wouldn't have to change the renderer at all, you just add a CSS class to the top level container object that the book is displayed in.)
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Date: 2015-06-16 07:46 pm (UTC)This actually seems like an area in which the ebook industry has failed. You were talking to me, some time back, about making versions of the book available that were, uh, porn-free (because it's ebook and print-on-demand, so it doesn't really cost extra). I don't know if you still want to do those, but it seems like to me it would be pretty easy for ebook creators/devices to basically have a setting which is "show porn" or "show replacement text", and allow the ebook to include both, and only have the correct one displayed.
It wouldn't even have to be "porn" or "no porn", you could have (say) a sex-ed book where you could set the reader's age (8, 10, 12, teen, adult, grandpa), and it would include or elide content based on that setting. "With profanity" or "without profanity". "Original release" or "now with 6 sentences of bonus content" release. This really seems like it would have a lot of potential use, without a lot of overhead.
(Literally, you could implement it with existing CSS code, and a menu to let you pick which of a few choices you want. You wouldn't have to change the renderer at all, you just add a CSS class to the top level container object that the book is displayed in.)
...ahem. Sorry. I should go patent that idea now.