Re: Too much content?

On Jun 29, 2009, at 2:52 AM, Richard Fuller wrote:

> That's an interesting observation. So far, though, I see bookstores  
> getting BIGGER, not smaller...they don't seem to be suffering from  
> any form of financial loss....eBooks are still in the hands of the  
> minority. Perhaps I'M the one who's old. It seems to me that kids  
> just don't read as much as us old folks....but then again, the  
> bookstores and all the multimedia can't be supported by just the old  
> agers....Perhaps my few is skewed... any observations??


I think SOME kids do. My oldest daughter age 14, goes through several  
books a week, much as I did at her age. In my youngest daughters 3rd  
grade class, all but about 4 out of 22 were "goal busters" meaning  
they had gotten 75 AR points for the year. There are many kids who  
regularly get in the hundreds of AR points. For those who aren't  
familiar with AR, a picture book is about half a point, Harry Potter  
and the Chamber of Secrets is 14 points. The schools are REALLY  
pushing and promoting reading. Still I am interested to see how many  
kids KEEP reading books into high school because basically the net  
offers a lot of reading without the necessity of buying books or going  
to the library. And I always thought that AR was a great way to suck  
all the fun and life out of books. My oldest still reads like a  
vacuum, but she does not take AR tests.

Anyway, I don't think it's accurate to say that fewer kids are  
reading. I think more kids are reading than a generation ago. Whether  
they KEEP reading into adulthood is anyone's guess and whether they  
read BOOKS is anyone's guess. Myself, I read newspapers. I seldom read  
books anymore. I write them, but I don't read them. Howzzat?

dej


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