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Report finds ‘shocking and dispiriting’ fall in children reading for pleasure (www.theguardian.com)
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Children's reading enjoyment has fallen to its lowest level in almost two decades, with just one in three young people saying that they enjoy reading in their free time, according to a new survey.

Only 34.6% of eight- to 18-year-olds surveyed by the National Literacy Trust (NLT) said that they enjoy reading in their spare time. This is the lowest level recorded by the charity since it began surveying children about their reading habits 19 years ago, representing an 8.8 percentage point drop since last year.

It is also part of a broader downward trend since 2016, when almost two in three children said that they enjoyed reading.

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[–] t3rmit3@beehaw.org 7 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (10 children)

I'm always interested to see exactly what is included and excluded from their definition of reading. On average, most adults actually read more today that we did in the 90s, if you're purely talking words of text consumed. Are graphic novels being included in these stats? Short stories? Social media threads? Most people even watch videos/tv/movies with subtitles they read now, which was not something that was an option before.

The actual article text never says the word "book" once, but I strongly suspect that is all that's being counted.

[–] DragonTypeWyvern@midwest.social 7 points 1 week ago (3 children)

The kinds of works that create an educated adult instead of a consumer.

[–] Randomgal@lemmy.ca 2 points 1 week ago

So all of the above?

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