Ok, here goes my poor attempt at a rant.
I think people read too much fiction, and not enough non-fiction, on their devices.
Current devices have adequate highlighting and note taking abilities to facilitate analytical reading.
Reading fiction tends to be the easiest elemental low level, of reading, and most Americans only read at an eighth grade level, below analytical , that is why authors like James Patterson are so popular.
Don't get me wrong I don't think that people should never read fiction but I think they should read more non-fiction.
There is a way in which we modern humans are inundated with information so we need to choose good filters to the information we imbibe. Reading , non-fiction, but not just any old non-fiction, is a good way to do this. It is good to give a book a quick ten minute superficial flip-through to see if it is worthy of a deeper analytical reading.
Also, newer books tend to be better than older books because the publishing industry is more competitive, nowadays, and the cream generally rises to the top. Also, newer books tend to benefit from updated information (but not always).
Reading fiction is primarily a pleasurable entertaining activity for people and Aristotle parenthetically refers in the Nichomachean Ethics:[Greek: o phronimoz to alupon dioke e ou to aedu] or, as it may be translated, not pleasure, but freedom from pain, is what the wise man will aim at.
So, it is hip to be square and don't be shy to break out even the nerdiest , of non-fiction, it is good for you !
