Why so few Americans read for pleasure
Leisure reading among U.S. adults 15 and older has dropped 40 percent in the past 20 years, according to researchers.
A person reads at the Rice University Library in Houston in 2022. (Brandon Bell / Getty Images)
While there’s evidence the trend began in the 1940s, this most recent decline in reading for pleasure is “significant,” Jill Sonke, co-director of the EpiArts Lab at the University of Florida, said in a news release.
The study — which was based on time-use data from nearly 240,000 Americans between 2003 and 2023 and excluded 2020 due to the covid-19 pandemic — found that time adults spent reading to children did not drop during that period. But only a small portion of participants — 2 percent — read to kids every day.
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