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Originally Posted by leebase
Has there ever been a time when "most" people were avid readers?
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Probably not, but is highly likely there are fewer avid readers than there were in the past, simply because there were fewer things to do in the past than there are now. Once you could spend your leisure time reading, listening to the radio or maybe going to a movie. When I was young lots of kids were avid readers of comic books or pulp magazines, now cheap comic books and pulp mags have disappeared. I wonder what percentage of people have library cards now, compared to those in the past?