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Originally Posted by william z
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?
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I would argue that there are a lot more avid readers simply because there are a lot more people. Perhaps the percentage of avid readers are down. I still see kids reading and kids books still seem to sell well. I think that it's more likely that the kids who are big video game types now were more likely those who were running around outside in earlier times.