Tuesday, January 13, 2009

The Current State of Reading


Can this be? It's on the rise?! Indeed. For the first time since 1982, reading has increased.

From the story...

For the first time since the NEA began surveying American reading habits in 1982 -- and less than five years after it issued its famously gloomy "Reading at Risk" report -- the percentage of American adults who report reading "novels, short stories, poems or plays" has risen instead of declining: from 46.7 percent in 2002 to 50.2 percent in 2008.

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