For those who are pure of heart and chaste of tongue, the Clean Reader app is a godsend. (Sorry that should be ‘is heaven sent;’ can’t have anything blasphemous.)
Clean Reader removes naughty words from ebooks. So if the words ****, ****, **** and **** offend you then Clean Reader is what you need. It replaces all those profanities with a safe alternative: thus ****ing hell becomes ‘well I never’ and **** off becomes ‘away with you.’
Developed by Jared and Kirsten Maughan, Clean Reader came about when they couldn’t find an existing app to filter out bad language from adult books they had chosen for their daughter. The app is allegedly biased towards Christian sentiments, which accounts for phrases such as ‘Jesus Christ’ being replaced with geez.
It also replaces embarrasing body parts with safer references. Buttocks becomes bottom, and according to the Independent newspaper, so does vagina, anus…
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