Kale Good morning folks
Skimming a copy of a Judy Blume book and... someone 'updated' it?
Peter asks for a clock radio and a laptop and an mp3 player and six cds?
The fuck?
Doesn't make sense - why would he want a clock radio AND a laptop? A clock radio made sense in the 80s, that was some 'oh, check out my BETTER clock', but no kid asks for that shit now
Ah. they HAD to keep the clock radio, because that's what Peter gets, and it's mentioned later.
See, this shit? It doesn't make sense. Just leave old books alone. You do more damage than anything else.
There's this perception that kids will reject anything not modern, anything not immediately adjacent to their own time's culture and just... *pinches bridge of nose* no?
There's definitely a window where you go 'ok, this is well and truly too old', but that's usually about linguistics more than tape players and clock radios vs cds and mp3s (why would Peter want CDs AND an mp3 player? I know there was somewhat of a time when you'd do that, but not most peoplpe)
Roger BW 😷@DarkestKale The argument I've heard is that some children will go "what's a 'record', this book is haaaard, back to video games". My limited experience is that children already want or don't want to read, and don't regard an occasional funny word as something to change that. (Especially now that they can look up words even if their house is so benighted as not to have a dictionary.)