I completely understand why an author would reject anybody attempting to change the prose as you have suggested here.
Whiting out in a book, or in your own ebook copy, is one thing. Sharing, then, those edits would be like releasing a fan-cut of a movie. Doing so wholesale (the entire movie) isn't ok - sharing timestamp swaps that you can plug into VLC is a different story.
> sharing timestamp swaps that you can plug into VLC is a different story.
That is precisely what I am suggesting sharing - page numbers, paragraph numbers, length, and other metadata needed to filter the book (essentially "timestamps" for books). This metadata would tell the software where to excise sections from the ebook. People would need to own their own copy of the book, and the ewhiteout software just alters it according to the metadata input.
Whiting out in a book, or in your own ebook copy, is one thing. Sharing, then, those edits would be like releasing a fan-cut of a movie. Doing so wholesale (the entire movie) isn't ok - sharing timestamp swaps that you can plug into VLC is a different story.