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Message: [QUOTE="Android 18, post: 189395, member: 166776"] Verdict from a teacher? Nope, they do not. Granted I am referring to 'young' meaning teens, but this is a phenomenon that has been commented on since I was about five years old: people simply do not read anymore. As a medium of art that dominated for two centuries until finally being displaced in the 1920s to 1950s, books have been relegated to the outskirts of art since the days of our grandparents, though this crisis has only really attained public acknowledgement about *their own* relative illiteracy since the 2010s. Aside from whatever happens to catch the flavour of 'booktok' and other formats that prioritise highly digestible, bite-sized 'content', books have been sidelined by many as even being 'pretentious' because they don't want to admit they have trained themselves out of the ability to read. I'm self-aware enough to know that I have similar focus issues, but I am slowly training myself out of a decade of dopamine destruction via phone use, which is helping with returning to my teenage love of reading. [/QUOTE]

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