On Jan 26, 2011, at 11:48 AM, Eric Beck wrote:
> If this is true, is it different from the more recent past? That's a
> real question. Very few of my contemporaries (born in '69) read for
> pleasure, and when they read because they had to, they didn't read
> very well, it always seemed to me.
>
> Tentative answer: Kids read all the time. They just don't read "texts."
I had classes in college where we were supposed to read 200 pages a week - and the average was 4.5 classes a semester (36 required to graduate). It stuns me that anything over 30 pages is considered too much.
Doug