Die Amerikaner lesen weniger Bücher für weniger Zeit. Die Leute wollen wissen warum

Who has time for the luxury of indulging in a good book when we have to work extra to keep up with rising costs of living coupled with stagnant wages?

Look at the all distractions we have. Like come on

54% of them have the reading comprehension of 12 year olds. It’s bleak out here

Without listening to the report, no offense but I’m not sure and lies of people don’t always say audio books equals reading books. If they are equal I’m up by 4 over other years.

Probably listening to just as many books. Since we are in a multitask moment, its been hard to sit down and just read a book. Typically people are walking, active, working out etc

Aren’t book sales also going up thanks to book tok?

I don’t have much time to read, but I do like audiobooks. With those I at least listen to 1-2 books a week while driving or exercising

The internet. The answer is the internet. It actually is those damn phones. They’re rotting our brains. The end. 

Social media has destroyed everyone’s attention span.

Time. The key word, were working, or preparing for work

There are more varied media offerings than ever before. Want to know about something? You could read a book. Or you could watch a YouTube channel or listen to a podcast. Or you could doom scroll for hours instead. Or play a videogame.

It wasn’t clear from the recording if audiobooks were included in the “reading” time. That has been a large shift in recent years and might skew results.

Honestly it is probably more an attention issue. People are getting used to being amused in 15 seconds or less. Hard to get them to hang on for 90,000 words.

We no longer primarily learn, communicate, or are entertained by books. Digital media took over.

I used to read a lot. Not *a lot* a lot as some people do but I enjoyed a plethora of scifi and space drama types of books. But over time when I wanted more it was actually difficult for me to find something I’d like. Movies and games are easy: you got trailers, demos, gameplay footage and all kinds of other advertising that reach out to me that grab my attention and assure me of my interests. Books take effort because I need to go to *them* and when I do I’m often disappointed in the things I found. Its been a long while since I’ve read anything, and I always got a bit of an itch to get involved in another world, but I feel like I’m lost at sea when I go looking. Mountains of books to sort and all of them filling a different niche with a different target audience and with no way to know of its overall quality unless you read it yourself. Maybe for a lot of people that enjoy reading for the sake of the activity going through a sub-par book isn’t make-or-break, but when my own interest is already thin I’m not going to be nearly as motivated to continue.

Because our education system is a joke. 53 percent read below a 6th grade level. It’s also hard to read for pleasure when you have to work two jobs to make ends meet, or maybe they’re worried about how to pay bills, or take care of mom.

It’s simple, we’re a nation of device addicts and lowered delayed gratification. They’ll have entire course studies on this era in the future and wonder how we survived … If we survive.