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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]People's capacity to read books has absolutely declined. There's no question about it. A 400 page novel used to be easy reading for any reasonably intelligent adult. But these days if you pop into a bookstore everything seems to be novellas if we can call it that. But now we as a society struggle with anything longer than a short magazine article.

I must admit I was once a voracious reader and now in my 40s I barely read a full book in a year. I'm embarrassed by it. But I also notice that when I go into a bookstore to browse the new books, the quality of current fiction seems to have also declined. And the stories themselves? It's either best selling authors from 25 years ago tiredly churning out another version of the same book, or the new young writers all writing the same story, just changing the skin colors or ethnicity, but it's effectively still the same woke story. It's rare for a new book to truly grab me. 
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What bookstore only sells novellas? Most books are 300-400 pages with YA books tending to be 400-500.

I think some people need to get a little perspective. Young people are reading, but perhaps the young people in your life aren’t reading.

Booktok, bookstagram, and Book Club on YikYak (specific to college kids) are huge. So huge that publishers cater to it.

The book box companies have exploded - younger people are paying big bucks for special editions. They are reviving something that was almost gone for a while.

There are kids literally crying on social media because they got their hands on an early copy of a certain book that comes out on Tuesday.

Maybe the real issue is with old farts who think only certain kinds of books (serious reading) are worthy and valid? [/quote]

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