Dawn of the digital natives - is reading declining? | Technology | The Guardian - 2 views
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The NEA makes a convincing case that both kids and adults are reading fewer books. "Non-required" reading - ie, picking up a book for the fun of it - is down 7% since 1992 for all adults, and 12% for 18-24 year olds
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Comparable non-events appear when you look at prose literacy levels in the adult population: in 1992, 43% of Americans read at an intermediate level; by 2003 the number was slightly higher at 44%. "Proficient" readers dropped slightly, from 15% to 13%.
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novel readers may have declined by 10%, but the number of bloggers has gone from zero to 25 million.
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To read or not to read.