Turn a page The problem of youth reading in our time is relevant as ever. And the question here isn’t so much in the number of young people who read anything at all, but in the fact that still reads the percentage of young people who are interested in it. Despite the fact that in Russia the percentage of literate population is 98 % (for example, in the West African Republic of Niger it is only 14 %), "literate population" of the country is absolutely not able to dispose of the fact that they are "homo legens" (people reading). What should be used for higher purposes is used in purely pragmatic activities. For example, to study the advertising of plastic Windows from the mailbox, eagerly absorb another piece of information about the "star" scandals on the Internet, well, in the end, read the new message came from friends. And only a small number of young people read books not according to the school program or the teacher's instruction, but because they feel the need for it. In connection with the increase in the development of various technologies, modern youth often refers to Internet sources, where you can freely find information, rather than to books. A small percentage of readers can answer the question of socio-cultural development of the individual, as well as the development of the individual as a whole. If we compare with the Soviet period, we can make the following analogy: developed reading at that time, as well as strict censorship of literature enriched the concept of man more about such facets of human nature as: morality, humanity, honor, dignity. Also, this censorship has been feeding the interest of readers to the forbidden books. People wanted to know the most interesting and closed to their access. At the same time, readers are rarely surprised. The information is publicly available seven days a week. In order to find anything half of the world's population doesn’t even need to leave the house. The amount of resources available gives a person a certain freedom of choice. And their variety is the problem of this very choice. Before the man is the task of thorough filtering and analysis of a huge amount of information. Another problem is the change of genre actualization of reading. What at the time was interested in the young pioneers, just not perceived by today's youth. Today's young people, unfortunately, read less and less, and from the reader's preferences can be identified, alas, not Tolstoy, Shakespeare, Moem, and fashion foreign authors.