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Originally Posted by Tony1988
Its not worth stressing over. Once you are old and cant throw around 200 bucks anymore you probably will also be too old to really enjoy much anymore including reading. Almost every old person i come across seem to follow pretty much the same pattern. There are exceptions of course(william shater and dick van dyke are still enjoying lifebto its fullest) but not many old people are reading like mad by the end of their lives.(or doing anything except sitting and watching tv) Most people just lose their drive and motivations as they age.
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I've been an avid reader all my life but I had to work long, hard hours so I always had a paperback in my back pocket or at least nearby for those few minutes I could sneak a few peeks at my book. Now I'm 75 and I've been retired over 20 years and I've read more in that 20 years than all the rest of my life put together. Probably 3/4 of the books I've read were in the past 20 years, in addition to re-reading a lot of the books I read when I was younger.
I live in a retirement home and being a gadget lover I have a bunch of older tablets and ereaders and MP3 players I no longer use and I put books on them and audiobooks on the MP3 players so I can lend them to my neighbors, many of whom never used to do much reading and now love it. The ones who can't see well any longer now listen to audiobooks, as do some of those who can see. The majority of them read.
For what it's worth I don't own a TV and I haven't had one for the past decade. It was taking up needed space in my closet so I gave it to someone. I do watch TV shows now and then on Netflix and other internet sources but I spend more time reading by far. I'm just too old anymore to have the motivation to watch TV.
I don't know which old person you observed to get your ideas but I don't think one makes for a representative sample. Look around.
Barry