Youth literacy rates in America still relatively low, libraries not helping.
It doesn’t take a genius to expose the fact that America’s youth is lazier to read anything insightful from an actual book (or even participate in physical activities) now than they were ten or more years ago. Much of that is to be blamed on the inception of the internet that we’ve grown to love with such useless sites as YouTube and MySpace that don’t do much but actually make you dumber at times. Another reason is obviously the greater exposure to video games in recent years. Well, how do we fix this growing American epidemic? We give them more video games, of course!
Wait… What? We give the kids more video games in hopes to curb their addiction to video games so they exchange their plastic hand pacifiers for paperback books? Who in the right mind would actually institute this madness?
Oh, right… Leave it to the people of the Clinton-Macomb Public Library in Rochester Hills, Michigan to encourage illiteracy… The funny thing about this whole thing is that the original article from ABC News never once mentions the game tournaments and rentals from the library having a positive affect on book rentals. Genius. Pure Genius.
Source: ABC News
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lol I doubt books will ever “go out of style” so to speak. I still enjoy sitting around and reading a good book here and there, and no Casey, not just Harry Potter.
I agree with Ryan. Books aren’t going anywhere, especially when someone like me has been reading a lot more often. Maybe college has matured me…
Also, people are always talking about how the paper era is coming to an end but I honestly don’t see that for a really long time. At least not in my lifetime. Think about the trillions of dollars multi-national corporations keep track of both on computers AND paper. If paper is good enough for them, it’s definitely good enough for avid readers.
good for them… books are eventually going to fade away with the digital age. People can find more entertaining things to do than read books. Say, see a movie, read a blog, or something like that. Thats just my opinion, as i’m not much of a book reader.