Single most shocking line of the article for me: > Adult American college graduates read 24 minutes a day on average [0] If this is referring to actual books

Single most shocking line of the article for me: > Adult American college graduates read 24 minutes a day on average [0] If this is referring to actual books (and not just random articles on the internet), that number seems crazy high to me. I would guess the percentage of college graduates that read any book at all during a given day to be something like 5% (As in, even of the ones that read a book or two per year, most days they're not reading), and the average amount of time spread over all adults in this category would be closer to 1 minute than 24. 24 minutes a day would mean serious readers would have to do a lot of reading to make up for the (probably large) numbers of adults who simply don't read at all. I think it's much more likely that "reading" includes articles on the internet (the big one) as well as newspapers/magazines (probably still significant among the older crows), and far less actual books. Which would sorta invalidate that particular point. [0] https://www.bls.gov/news.release/atus.t11a.htm https://www.bls.gov/news.release/atus.t11a.htm