Saturday, January 05, 2008

"The act of reading is not natural."

What will life be like if people shop reading

"Between 1955 and 1975, the decades when television was being introducted into the Netherlands, reading on weekday evenings and weeknds fell from five hours a week to 3.6, while television watching rose from about ten minues a week to more than ten hours. During the next two decades, reading continued to fall and television watching to rise, though more slowly. By 1995 reading, which had occupied twenty-one per cent of people's spare time in 1955, accounted for just nine per cent."

Based on reseach conducted in the Netherlands, where people were asked to keep diaries of how they spent every fifteen minutes of the spare time.

This article is fascinating. Read it!

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

I feel privileged that I got to read for 3 hours today while my son snow boarded! Grim book though. Istanbul. by Orhan Pamuk still not sure while it is a Noble Prize winner