Back when they were pushing public literacy, reading books was disparaged as a morbid activity. (Sitting unmoving for a long time, staring...)
But now everybody does it.
But now everybody does it.
And for people that overdid it, it was. The modern sedentary lifestyle starting from that era's combo (office / clerical jobs + stationary entertainment with books and magazines, and later tv and radio).
>But now everybody does it.
Read books? Nah:
If we count only fully-read books, the average American adult reads just over 5 books per year. (...) A less-than-ideal 46 percent finished zero books last year and 5 percent read just one.