Reading is a fickle thing, in that, it is the act of identifying characters, parsing them, and reassembling meaning out of the input string. In some way reading encourages learning, memorization of parsed strings, and in others its stored temporarily as though it was only read for immediate consumption. Personally i like to absorb all strings that i read in a cool comfortable environment where the act is unchallenged by outside noise. Another ideal when it comes to reading is that i would prefer it be on paper or on eink (like my kindle) though if im just trying to absorb information fast ill take to skimming online documents.
People these days are reading less books, but they are not reading less. People with the notion that reading is exclusive to books have a dated image of what reading is. Whether people want to admit it or not is that they are reading all the time due to the internet not in-spite of it. All those pdf's, blogs, news sites, exc. count as reading. Though the traditional book is making a comeback in a non-traditional form ergo the kindle. The future and present of reading is on the computer and until this is recognized as a legitimate form of reading then people will still be under the blind assumption that no one reads.
The difficult part that people will have to get past is the definition of what is reading and a new challenge is the advent of twitter. The question often asked is 150 characters enough to express your feelings such that its considered reading? The general replay is that a haiku that is general limited by syllables reading?
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