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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Banshee16" data-source="post: 3409810" data-attributes="member: 7883">Canadian surveys have shown that more Canadians equate sitting down with a good book as their favourite way to relax than just about any other passtime.  I remember hearing that one a few months ago.While it is true that literacy among children is lower than it was for previous generations, and it is somewhat attributed to video games, I suspect that the tendency has been exaggerated in the media, in order to get more attention.Anecdotally speaking, everyone I know reads...and rather regularly.  I probably go through 10-20 books a year.  On average, a new one every 2-3 weeks.  I read the newspaper every day, as well as magazines, gaming books, etc.  I'd read more if I had more time.  My wife, parents, siblings, in-laws, coworkers.....we all trade info about good books etc.  Maybe I'm living in some twilight zone of people who read among a society of people who don't touch books...but I doubt it <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" />Banshee</blockquote>