In 2022, only 48.5% of all U.S. adults read a book of any type. This stands in contrast to gambling, where in the past year 57% of Americans placed a bet.
Is it the end of reading as we knew it? Or is it more complicated than that?
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The End of Reading Is Here
Optimists once believed that universal literacy was inevitable. Now it seems that the age of reading might be a short anomaly in human history.