![]() Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi has discovered in his research that one of the simplest and most common forms of flow that people experience in their lives is reading a book-and, like other forms of flow, it is being choked off in our culture of constant distraction. In one single year-2011-paperback fiction sales collapsed by 26 percent. ![]() It’s been less well studied, but there seem to be similar trends in Britain and other countries: between 20 the market for novels fell by 40 percent. For the first time in modern history, less than half of Americans read literature for pleasure. This has escalated to the point that by 2017, the average American spent seventeen minutes a day reading books and 5.4 hours on their phone.Ĭomplex literary fiction is particularly suffering. Some 57 percent of Americans now do not read a single book in a typical year. The opinion-poll company Gallup found that the proportion of Americans who never read a book in any given year tripled between 19. ![]() ![]() ![]() The American Time Use Survey-which studies a representative sample of 26,000 Americans-found that between 20 the proportion of men reading for pleasure had fallen by 40 percent, while for women, it was down by 29 percent. The proportion of Americans who read books for pleasure is now at its lowest level ever recorded. ![]()
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