"Twilight of the Books"

In the article, "Twilight of the Books," Caleb Crain points out the startling decline in reading habits in todays generation. Throughout the past couple decades, the amount of time that individuals have spent reading has continuously gone down. Along with the dwindling timespan spent reading, the ability to read has decreased as well. In his article, Crain writes, "Between 1955 and 1975, the decades when television was being introduced into the Netherlands, reading on weekday evenings and weekends fell from five hours a week to 3.6, while television watching rose from about ten minutes a week to more than ten hours." This is extremely alarming because reading is essential to ones education and knowledge, however, it seems that nowadays many individuals are placing entertainment above their own learning. If this pattern continues, and reading falls while television rises, then our younger generations could be at a serious loss.