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Re: Show HN: Bookvine.io – Help find age appropriate books for kids aged 6 to 14

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Post by realcul »

jasonboyd wrote: post #3
realcul wrote: post #2

Hi HN, Bookvine.io helps find age appropriate books for kids, with links to get it from Amazon or your local county library (limited to US for now). This was created by my 13yr old son who is an avid reader. I used to spend hours trying to get the right books for him to read and then get it from local county library or Amazon. He wanted to create this site from the books that he has read - to help others in a similar…

This is fantastic. Thanks so much to your son for curating this list and creating the site. We will start working our way through these recommendations.

Thanks please do share any feedback as you work thru this - both on the content and also on the site as well.

Re: Show HN: Bookvine.io – Help find age appropriate books for kids aged 6 to 14

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Post by realcul »

jll29 wrote: post #21

Thanks for putting together the site, it's amazing that your son read 300 books already. Suitability of books is a complex topic, but the site is a good start. Typo: Animal Farm is by George Orwell (= Eric Blair), not by Jack London as the site says.

Great catch. Thanks for checking it out and the feedback. Will fix it. Yes I agree there is never a one size fits all.

Re: Show HN: Bookvine.io – Help find age appropriate books for kids aged 6 to 14

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Post by realcul »

taftster wrote: post #16

Thank you for this. Suggestion: I'm looking at the 10-14 list. When I click "Next Page", it retains the "book series" section on top and the actual next page I have to scroll halfway down the screen to see. I'm not expecting to have to skip over the book series section again to get to the next page of individual books. Difficult and confusing, at best.

Thanks for checking it out and the feedback. Yes, pagination is confusing will pass on the feedback to my son.

Re: Show HN: Bookvine.io – Help find age appropriate books for kids aged 6 to 14

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Post by skeeter2020 »

rahimnathwani wrote: post #9

This is a difficult problem to solve for some kids, because there are at least two dimensions to consider: - language difficulty (which is what lexile aims to measure) - how appropriate the topic is My 5.5yo son is decoding words at about 4th grade level (based on an informal 'San Diego Quick Assessment'). But he's limited in his reading by: - his life experience and existing knowledge, which both affect comprehensio…

> how appropriate the topic is

I don't think this is a big deal, as IME kids don't find age inappropriate titles interesting enough to read. My wife is an elementary librarian and kids in grade 4 or less just don't like YA aimed at the 12+ crowd.

Re: Show HN: Bookvine.io – Help find age appropriate books for kids aged 6 to 14

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Post by rahimnathwani »

skeeter2020 wrote: post #34
rahimnathwani wrote: post #9

This is a difficult problem to solve for some kids, because there are at least two dimensions to consider: - language difficulty (which is what lexile aims to measure) - how appropriate the topic is My 5.5yo son is decoding words at about 4th grade level (based on an informal 'San Diego Quick Assessment'). But he's limited in his reading by: - his life experience and existing knowledge, which both affect comprehensio…

> how appropriate the topic is I don't think this is a big deal, as IME kids don't find age inappropriate titles interesting enough to read. My wife is an elementary librarian and kids in grade 4 or less just don't like YA aimed at the 12+ crowd.

Yes, that’s the problem. The books for his age are too simple. Most books at his reading level don’t interest him.

Re: Show HN: Bookvine.io – Help find age appropriate books for kids aged 6 to 14

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Post by realcul »

cpfohl wrote: post #28
awb wrote: post #27

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The same goes for the inverse. It can be discouraging for kids behind in reading to be assigned content based on their age (or grade) only for it to be far too challenging. It’s a hard problem though because categorization makes it easy to organize content and find what you’re looking for, but it can also feel like a competition, which is not always helpful.

I wonder if the solution is _not_ naming the categories...simply ordering them by difficulty...

Yes, that is definitely a good way to represent. Instead of age group based recommendation...we simply call it Phase 3, Phase 4 etc...

Re: Show HN: Bookvine.io – Help find age appropriate books for kids aged 6 to 14

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Post by realcul »

Minor49er wrote: post #17
mistrial9 wrote: post #14

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The About page answers this in detail: https://www.bookvine.io/about-page Overall, this appears to be a learning project for a middle schooler and his dad as well as a way for them to cover costs through affiliate links. While this might be a fun and useful way to discover new books, you should read the reviews and cross-reference your findings with parental or specialty groups like teachclean.com if you are concerne…

Yes. Thanks for sharing this. We have not even put any affiliate links. As you rightly pointed out - this is purely a learning project and at the same time a way to help others who were having the same issue as me (spending lot of time identifying good books to read).

Re: Show HN: Bookvine.io – Help find age appropriate books for kids aged 6 to 14

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Post by cpfohl »

realcul wrote: post #36
cpfohl wrote: post #28

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I wonder if the solution is _not_ naming the categories...simply ordering them by difficulty...

Yes, that is definitely a good way to represent. Instead of age group based recommendation...we simply call it Phase 3, Phase 4 etc...

Love how you guys thought it out!

Re: Show HN: Bookvine.io – Help find age appropriate books for kids aged 6 to 14

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rahimnathwani wrote: post #9

This is a difficult problem to solve for some kids, because there are at least two dimensions to consider: - language difficulty (which is what lexile aims to measure) - how appropriate the topic is My 5.5yo son is decoding words at about 4th grade level (based on an informal 'San Diego Quick Assessment'). But he's limited in his reading by: - his life experience and existing knowledge, which both affect comprehensio…

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Re: Show HN: Bookvine.io – Help find age appropriate books for kids aged 6 to 14

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Post by SamBam »

pirate787 wrote: post #26
morelisp wrote: post #23

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It's child abuse for parents to hide the existence of gay relationships from their children. You're advocating child abuse under genteel language.

That's an absurd argument. Reductio ad absurdum. Every parent has the right to determine when and how their kids learn about various developmental and sexual topics.

Hmm, about 100 years of progressive era educational reforms would like to argue with you about that.

Why is it that we consider sexual topics the one line that needs parental consent to learn or teach about? Seventeenth century American Puritanism, mostly.

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