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Originally Posted by piperclassique
Um, sorry, but if he wants to read why can't he look for his own books? I don't recall my relatives ever choosing my reading (just paying for it, and losing their library cards to my acquisitive little mitts)
And, no, they didn't censor me.
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I suspect it's more a problem that there's too much to wade through--there is no convenient YA-oriented shelf at Amazon or Smashwords, and sorting by tags or keywords doesn't come with the ability to sort by price. For most parents with avid reader children, the problem isn't "keep the icky stuff away from my kids" but "find enough content within their range of interests to keep them happy."
I would love a curated list of "books my kids might be interested in, because they are teenagers alive today," so they didn't have to wade through listings for countless romances (not that I'd prevent them from reading Harlequins, but they're not interested) and political thrillers--which, again, I don't object to their reading, but enjoying those takes a better understanding of modern politics than they have.
I wouldn't attempt to push the kids into sticking to the list; it'd just be nice to give them a starting point.