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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Toben the Many" data-source="post: 4911514" data-attributes="member: 19273">All I can tell you is that after a decade of teaching, this is what I usually observe. There are the occasional kids who do nothing but play video games, but by and large - the majority of kids who play a ton of video games also read a lot. These are the same kids that also have a lot of free time on their hands, too. They're not going to sports or cub scouts or piano practice after school. They're going home, finishing homework, playing video games, and then reading before they go to bed and on the weekends. But the rate at which they consume books usually far outstrips any of their peers.I think what you also have to factor in is that we're talking about kids. As kids, they don't have access to all of the video games they want. They might have just a few in their collection. So when they done with a game, they'll go back to a book. Or after they've read Harry Potter for the fifth time, they'll go back to video games. This corroborates what we've always known. They talked about this in the WotC gamer survey way back when. That when gamers are given a choice of video games, RPGs, and minis - a lot of them pick all of the above. People like to engage in a variety of activities and can do so easily. Here's the thing. I would go ahead and wager that on these very boards, most people here read far more than the average American. And I would also wager that most people here play more video games than the average American in their age group.</blockquote>

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