Hmm, 25 Here, and as some have mentioned, I can't remember a time when I couldn't read. i can remember not being able to read some books
but never not being able to read at all.
When I was really young, we didn't have too many other options for entertainment. Tanzania in the 80's was a nice place to live, but you could not find many luxuries. luckly, my dad was able to go to Kenya regularly, and always bought a lot of books for us. (on a side note, those books probably were well worth it as they passed through a lot of different hands, as we outgrew them, and they probably still are)
I also had the dubious advantage that my parents when we moved back to India felt that we was watching too much TV, and as such removed the T.V.'s (yes I mean the plural, 4 if I rember correctly) from the house when I was in primary school. But they did give a big allowance to buy books and got me ton of magazine subscriptions.
I wasn't that much of a library goer as there were no decent library's nearby, and I managed to get through most of the school's in a couple of years. Instead, I loved to visit the local book market, where on every sunday, hawkers would line line one road in town, and you could find a ton of old books really cheaply. I discovered a lot of authors whom I would probably not have read as their books were not available for sale any more or if they were, they were too expensive.
But I digress.What I do find a little sad that not that many people my age like to read.