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Screens and low reading levels
Quote:
The proportion of Americans who read books
for pleasure is now at its lowest level ever recorded. The American Time
Use Survey—which studies a representative sample of 26,000
Americans—found that between 2004 and 2017 the proportion of men reading
for pleasure had fallen by 40 percent, while for women, it was down by
29 percent. The opinion-poll company Gallup found that the proportion of
Americans who never read a book in any given year tripled between 1978
and 2014. Some 57 percent of Americans now do not read a single book in a
typical year. This has escalated to the point that by 2017, the average
American spent seventeen minutes a day reading books and 5.4 hours on
their phone.
🙁
It’s a spiral—as we
began to move from books to screens, we started to lose some of the
capacity for the deeper reading that comes from books, and that, in
turn, made us less likely to read books.
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