[tosmatos]

Do you really think it's "both garbage and high-value content"?

From what I've seen it's either or. It seems the exception that a kid or teenager will watch a healthy mix of both.

I agree that lots of books and long-form content could be summarised, but if you ever read a book than watched the movie adaptation, you can understand that even though there's not necessarily a lot of value being lost, there can be.

Also, I think book reading helps a lot with your attention span and capacity to engage with content for a long time. I think the problem is not assigning books to read to those kids, its assigning the wrong ones. Any kid can get absorbed by a book where they can relate to the characters.