I don't leisure-read as much as I want to, but that's because I'm in college. If I could afford it, I'd buy every book I wanted to read and more. For the foreseeable future, I'll have to stick with libraries.
But reading certainly isn't dead! I've been using computers since 1991 and never lost my penchant for reading. I think it comes down to the current crisis of bad parenting, in which parents do not read to their children (and teach them to read) at an early age (preferably since birth) and let the television stifle creativity and independent thought.
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