That quote always struck me as funny. Jobs is a bright guy and part of me wonders if he was tossing that out there to make competitors think that Apple wasn't working on a tablet/ereader device. Could he be that sneaky?
Then again, I recently went back to university as a mature student to finish a physics degree, and I was appalled by how few of my 20-something classmates bothered to read for pleasure ... and not because they had a lot of physics texts to read either - the ones I asked about it said that they hardly ever read books - even over summer vacations, winter holidays, etc.
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