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Re:Why don't more people read? by bdm on Wednesday February 26, 2014 @09:41PM (#7309981)
"Time" is a trivial reason - by that I mean - people who don't do X don't do it because they spend their time doing not X. This is true for any X.

The real question here is - what do people prioritize above reading? And maybe a side question is, where do they get that sense of prioritization from?

Re:Why don't more people read? by zoowar on Wednesday February 26, 2014 @09:54PM (#7310031)
The answer is TV and, increasingly, the Internet.
Re:Why don't more people read? by Perdition on Wednesday February 26, 2014 @10:40PM (#7310255)
Why doesn't the Internet count as "reading"?

Most of the time I spend on the net I spend reading forums like this or reading technical articles.

The only difference between that and reading a book is that I read more authors per unit of time.

Re:Why don't more people read? by tinacgh on Thursday February 27, 2014 @03:25PM (#7314770)
Though I spend about as much time reading now as I did before the Internet, my attention span dropped significantly. There are so many disparate sources of information and distractions on the Internet, that I rarely read whole articles any more.