I meant, reading physical books as a recreational activity because you're living on a farm with subsistence wages and lack the income or time to do so. China wa

I meant, reading physical books as a recreational activity because you're living on a farm with subsistence wages and lack the income or time to do so. China was a country with 750 million people living on less than $2 a day in 1990. Not to mention the burning of books and disdaining of intellectual pursuit in the cultural revolution.