A study published in the journal iScience by researchers at the University of Florida and UCL found that daily reading for pleasure in the US fell by over 40% between 2003 and 2023. Reading encompassed books, magazines and newspapers in print, e-book or audio formats but not newspapers and magazines online.
Probably the figures or other Western countries are similar. Romanians are more bookish though.
In fact people probably read for pleasure much, much more than before the internet but they read online.
But there are lots of alternatives to reading unlike in the dear bygone time. Thoughts that once produced books now become X posts, vlogs, podcasts, films or television programmes.
Leonard Cohen and Bob Dylan were poets.
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