Has the internet killed the joys of sitting down with a good book?
Mark Morford, San Francisco Chronicle


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Hasn't reading been declining among adults for quite a while, even before the widespread introduction of the Internet into homes everywhere? Did the number (or percentage) of adult Americans who read books for leisure peak and start to decline, as other forms of mass entertainment became popular? And should we look not only at whether people are reading, but what they are reading?

As I say to some of my friends who don't like to read, "Literacy is wasted on you." They haven't touched a book not related to work since college.