I’m a 24 year old college graduate that doesn’t read. Of course, I’ve read several books throughout my life, but it’s just not something I do often enough. It’s hard to say what the exact cause of this is, but my generation definitely will suffer from greater unwillingness to read due the wide variety of distractions we all grew up with (video games, movies, internet - social networks, youtube, etc). My unwillingness to read has been a bit saddening for me throughout my life. Even if I can convince myself to sit through one book, there is no way I’m going to be able to carry that determination over to the next book. I don’t know, maybe one day it’ll be my time to read consistently.

From a comment on an excerpt from Alan Jacobs’ excellent The Pleasure of Reading in an Age of Distraction over at The Chronicle of Higher Education. (I suggest you pick up Jacobs’ book, if only to read his thoughts on what it means to read for Whim.)

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This hurts. The amount of ignorance and apathy in our generation is saddening. (sigh)

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