This is actually rather helpful. A site that allows you to replace those unpronunceable, indistinguishable, unrememberable russian names in Crime and Punishment with more reader-friendly ones.
In fact, there should be more of those amazing machines, with extended capabilities not limited to name substitution. In epics, for example, references to dusty old gods nobody cares about could be replaced by appereances of modern comic-book heroes. Superman is Apollo (he receives his power fron the Sun, after all) and Batman could be Hades. Also, boring Bronze Age technology should be replaced by shiny spaceships and laserguns. As for now, those welcome changes must be implemented manually.
What? Disrespectful, you say? Bah. You are trying to sacralize one of the severe limitations of the printed word: its static, fixed nature. Do you really believe those ancient bards (blind or not) didn't adapt his yarns for each particular audience? Since in our mass society it would be impractical to have all those bards prancing around, we should prompt writers to create, instead of those monolithic strings of words they call "novels", algorithms that generate particularized texts based on each reader's set of cultural references and archetypes. Or, they could just stop writing and get into videogames.
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