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"Time" is a trivial reason - by that I mean - people who don't do X don't do it because they spend their time doing not X. This is true for any X.

The real question here is - what do people prioritize above reading? And maybe a side question is, where do they get that sense of prioritization from?

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The answer is TV and, increasingly, the Internet.

Why doesn't the Internet count as "reading"?

Most of the time I spend on the net I spend reading forums like this or reading technical articles.

The only difference between that and reading a book is that I read more authors per unit of time.

Though I spend about as much time reading now as I did before the Internet, my attention span dropped significantly. There are so many disparate sources of information and distractions on the Internet, that I rarely read whole articles any more.

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