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Is the Internet making us stupid (with apologies to Nicholas Carr<\/a>). This article from the Atlantic<\/a> offers data on the reading of books. It reports that 23% did not read a book in any format (hard copy or ebook) last year. Reading books is related to education and if there is a positive in the analysis it is that there seems to be little recent decline in the reading of those leaving college. I guess that is supposed to be a positive.<\/p>\n

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