If the screen is showing video then it may not be a reading something long form.
If they are constantly clicking and scrolling then it may not be something long form.
This is not exclusive to “young people”: phones and tablets are used more for shorter attention span, video engagement, and game activities. And it is not hard to observe them being used in that manner, as opposed to reading a complete page of information, one click or swipe, and another whole page.
I don’t know numbers but I do still see kids of all ages with books.
So do I. Compare the bedrooms of a teen and an adult. The teen will inevitably have more books, especially ones that look like they are being actively read.
I don’t see kids reading any of those things either. What they do “read” on their phones (text messages, social media feeds, websites with lots of images) looks obviously different from the pure text you’d see if they were reading a book.
“Interestingly, Kindles and similar e-readers were more popular with the older generations we surveyed, whereas younger people were as interested in print, or more, than their older fellow readers.” … Stewart says interest from young readers is driving what he describes as “astonishing” growth in fiction sales.
Canadian publishing sales figures are not publicly available, but Stewart says overall sales in the U.S. are up 12 per cent since 2019, while fiction is up 45 per cent.
Yes, read it several times-I even owned a copy once, donated it- along with many boxes of other books to my local library. Like i said above, it is a okay book, I have no issue with it being taught to more advanced readers. Same with Huckleberry Finn, altho that of course is one of the greatest works of American literature. Still, a book with the N word is not for younger kids who still have issues reading anything.
Yes, AP English, maybe for seniors. Where they could discuss intelligently stuff like the poles being pigs, the Holocaust, etc
Not for kids in elementary school- kids who might still have issues with reading at their level. 70% of American 8th graders in America cant read at that level;. Let us fix that first.
I realized this when I read Watchmen, and pretty much everything I’ve read since by Alan Moore. A right nutter, that guy. But he knows how to use his medium.
On The Road - Jack Kerouac. Between 16-18 years of age Americans get a car. With a summer job and a few friends they gather a small batch of cash. There seems to be nothing more American as a right of passage than a continental road-trip in your own car.
This book needs to be read at that moment in your life or you might never do this.