But the optimists overlook a crucial thread in the data: Text is thriving among a dwindling proportion of the population. Just 20 percent of adults accounted for more than 80 percent of all books read last year. “It’s becoming a kind of niche hobby, like stamp collecting or growing orchids,” Leah Price, a historian of reading at Rutgers University, told me. Readers spend more time reading each day than they did two decades ago. They appear to be even more passionate about print than their predecessors. But the people devoted to text, who derive cultural understanding and intellectual connection from the written word, are now part of a subculture. The fact that you are reading this article almost certainly makes you a member of it.
I mean… I’m reading this off the internet and found it through a message board I spend shitloads of time on instead of reading books. I read books as well; mostly reference material for childrearing or programming. It has been a while since I read a fiction book, and challenging myself to do it in spanish since that’s the kind of thing that improves my language acquisition the most doesn’t help my volume of reading.
IDK. I hated the classics and anything that didn’t feel like the actual language I spoke even when I was an avid reader; my dad tried to make me read Dostoevsky and I just wanted to read Terry Prattchett. I hated Shakespere. Sometimes the classics are just too fucking meandering to ascertain what the fuck they want to say.
This paragraph feels like a "yay, you go audience! by reading this, you are special!
This paragraph feels like a "yay, you go audience! by reading this, you are special!
The bar is literally in hell unfortunately, so they made a valid point. I don’t want to be ye Olde millenial boomer over here, but kids these days literally don’t know punctuation or how to read… When I was still on Reddit I would go on r/teachers like I was reading SCP stories as a teen.
The bar is literally in hell unfortunately, so they made a valid point.
I think part of what I missed when I wrote this is that by reading this article, we aren’t exactly doing what the article is suggesting is the right thing to do : get off the computer and read a fucking book. Fair point to them that this article is from a print magazine and we are reading the online version, but I’m not doing the “recommended path for not being an illiterate pig”.
It’s weird, I have a varied history when it comes to books but it does feel like having done a lot of reading as a youth did help me avoid *some* of the negative repercussions of spending so much time watching tv and going on the internet. But I do have a frayed attention span that therapists keep saying isn’t ADD/ADHD but does bother me.
Side note : I hate my mental state. It feels like I have some parts of a few different disorders but not enough of it to be an actual diagnosis. Except the millennial favourite of anxiety/depression.
and challenging myself to do it in spanish since that’s the kind of thing that improves my language acquisition the most doesn’t help my volume of reading.
I do this too, i probably should have started with easy books like Dr Seuss or something though.
I mean… I’m reading this off the internet and found it through a message board I spend shitloads of time on instead of reading books. I read books as well; mostly reference material for childrearing or programming. It has been a while since I read a fiction book, and challenging myself to do it in spanish since that’s the kind of thing that improves my language acquisition the most doesn’t help my volume of reading.
IDK. I hated the classics and anything that didn’t feel like the actual language I spoke even when I was an avid reader; my dad tried to make me read Dostoevsky and I just wanted to read Terry Prattchett. I hated Shakespere. Sometimes the classics are just too fucking meandering to ascertain what the fuck they want to say.
This paragraph feels like a "yay, you go audience! by reading this, you are special!
The bar is literally in hell unfortunately, so they made a valid point. I don’t want to be ye Olde millenial boomer over here, but kids these days literally don’t know punctuation or how to read… When I was still on Reddit I would go on r/teachers like I was reading SCP stories as a teen.
I think part of what I missed when I wrote this is that by reading this article, we aren’t exactly doing what the article is suggesting is the right thing to do : get off the computer and read a fucking book. Fair point to them that this article is from a print magazine and we are reading the online version, but I’m not doing the “recommended path for not being an illiterate pig”.
It’s weird, I have a varied history when it comes to books but it does feel like having done a lot of reading as a youth did help me avoid *some* of the negative repercussions of spending so much time watching tv and going on the internet. But I do have a frayed attention span that therapists keep saying isn’t ADD/ADHD but does bother me.
Side note : I hate my mental state. It feels like I have some parts of a few different disorders but not enough of it to be an actual diagnosis. Except the millennial favourite of anxiety/depression.
Have you been tested for ADHD? I had a therapist tell me the same thing. He was wrong.
I do this too, i probably should have started with easy books like Dr Seuss or something though.