WriterGurl1 wrote:I think a rating system is a fantastic idea! For those who don't want adult content or violence, they could be made aware beforehand and on the flip side, those who don't want to read bible verses along with their romance can be alerted to that type of content as well. It's a win-win
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Be careful or you may inspire Zondervan and Harlequin to team up and bring out something worse than the Love Inspired series... 
OKAY I'M OFFICIALLY ANNOYED!!
We read to our kids, 8 and 6, every night.
So I'm sitting with my little one and we're trying to pick out tonights story.
Gee, what do I while my kid is sitting on my lap?
I whip open the NC , go to Shop and search for "Bedtime Stories" - - well you know, because my son had such a good day and I thought I'd treat him to a new book.
B&N - FOR CRYING OUT SAKES! HOW ABOUT A FILTER ALREADY!
Not that anyone at B&N could bother to read this forum or anything . . . .
Given the number of under-18s that seem to have been gifted NOOKs (or bought them with their own hard-earned cash) it would be nice of there was an option to lock the shopping from those units to just the Kids' and Teen NOOKbook sections. A quick browse there didn't turn up any of the "erotic"-type titles that seem to creep into every other category, especially the free books.
Plenty of vampires, teen issues, and Twilight knock-offs...but they may objectionable for totally different reasons. 
Beyond that, I think the old demarcation of simply childrens' vs. everything else is sufficient and no rating system is required. If you can't trust the child you have raised to browse appropriately in the adult section of the store (real or virtual), then don't let them browse unsupervised.
As a parent, former bookstore employee, and writer, that's how I feel: parents should be doing the "policing," not booksellers.
In general, I would agree that the search capabilities on the NOOK and on bn.com leave much to be desired, as far as easily getting to what you want/don't want. Some of this comes from the marketing departments at publishers who think their books have huge cross-genre appeal or just want any kind of exposure. But alot of it has to do with the really wimpy search abilities B&N provides, even with so-called "Advanced Search." In particular, the inability to exclude terms (andnot) from a broader general search.
But again, we do not need a "ratings system." For me, this is just the slippery slope to censorship and stifled creativity. Publishers and stores should make better efforts to inform about content (through better tagging, searching, reviews, ratings, etc.) but it is up to parents to know the maturity level of their child and what is appropriate, given that and their family's own personal (and somewhat subjective) set of values.
What I think is appropriate for my 16-year-old daughter may vastly differ from what you would let yours read. And that's OK (within pretty broad limits).
On the one had I appreciate what you are saying, on the other not so much. Parents are the responsible parties . . . to a point. I wasn't letting my child search for a book on his own, we were doing it together.
If you'd bother to do a Shop search with my (Google-esque - shame on me) search string you'd plainly see that the kids books are mixed with the Erotica in the results.
The "brick and mortar" B&N stores aren't organized like that. Why why can't the NC Shop reflect the same level of organization?
Or better yet, give the parents a fighting chance to manage their kids experience!
Good point.
-also, I shouldn't have used their search function like it was a context dependent Google search.
The books are already tagged "Erotica" I simply would like a check box or some sort of Shop Setup screen that gives me, the parent/owner of the device the option to include these books in the search results.
