Is that much of a change though? Going back 35 years I would be surprised if more than a fifth of my contemporaries had read books daily for pleasure. The article does bury in there that reading books in digital form is being counted separately, too.
It's very annoying when journalists publish press releases without providing statistical context like that.
Brad Macpherson
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