@Daojoan do you enjoy blaming teens for the myriad reasons that it's harder for them to pick up a book and/or easier for them to find so much more reading material than just traditional books?

@Daojoan This is one of those Brave New World vs. 1984 things. Which is actually worse?

@Daojoan I have moved to 60-70% audiobooks but nevertheless, at any given time I have ~3 books underway. And my grandkids are both voracious readers. I may not often like what they read 😂 but they love books.

@Daojoan there's a limited amount of time, and hypertext always offered another way to use text and illustration?

I'd slope the whole graph by the population increase, perhaps?

Interesting though, and I don't like the change.

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Those that don't read, draw guidance from a dry well of knowledge.

@Daojoan We've been doing the Huxleyian dystopia for a couple decades but that wasn't fast enough for some people so they're pushing the Orwell/Bradbury scenario on top of that.

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Yikes! 😳

@Daojoan Fascists can’t read and Americans and inherently fascists. Only stands to reason.

@Daojoan I was far from a perfect parent but one thing we unequivocally did right was we raised a reader.

@Daojoan The actual saddest chart.

@Daojoan I'd like to see the other answers. What about "sometimes"?
These are just the two extremes.

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"In reality: we gave up reading voluntarily."

Speak for yourself

I read *every* night in bed, without fail

Honestly, such glib disaster-cliches are close to a mute and block

My Personal Note on your profile: "Increasingly boring and self-focused"

Make of that what you will

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Ive always found that misleading.

Ive read a few dead trees recently, but more and more long form (books, novels, stories, papers) are on a computer.

When they ask these reading questions, do they clarify that the medium does not matter, or are they "it must be a dead tree or its not really reading"?

@Daojoan What happened in 2006?? Why then?