If you love nothing more than devouring a page-turner in your free time, you're becoming a rare breed. Reading for pleasure among adults in the United States has fallen dramatically in the last two decades. A new study from the University of Florida and University College London, published in iScience, found that leisure reading, or reading for fun, has declined by 40% in the last 20 years.
  • howrar@lemmy.caEnglish
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    3 hours ago

    the possibility that some people are reading less for enjoyment and more for practical purposes, such as keeping up with online news services.

    So they explicitly exclude reading that isn’t for fun. But then

    There are numerous benefits of reading for pleasure, from improving literacy skills and overall well-being to nurturing the imagination and preventing cognitive decline.

    If those are the goals, why does it have to be reading for pleasure? Isn’t the content of what you’re reading much more important?