HEY CLEAN READER APP...BLOW ME

So here's the scene, I'm at Coffee + Food this morning with two girlfriends who are avid readers. I put my dirty dirty chai down and posed the question: What do you guys think of the Clean Reader app? One friend who hadn't heard of it reached for her iPad and tried to download it. She couldn't find it in the Apple Store and was redirected to a My Bookshelf utilities app for $2.99 that promised to organize her bookshelf. "Never heard of it. What does it do?" My other friend grimaced, "Ugh that app that opens your books and while you're reading it changes obscenities into words that are um, non-obscene?" Me: "Yup." Friend #1: "Are you f*@king kidding?" Friend #2: Yeah I've heard of it. I can't imagine it really works. Well the conversation was lively to say the least with us wandering the subjects that could come up when discussing sanitizing a book that an author intended to include profanity. Friend #1