"One in four adults say they read no books at all in the past year, according to an Associated Press-Ipsos poll released Tuesday. "   

I can't say that the results of this AP poll surprises me much, but it's still a bit depressing.  Even if you assume that some of those people were reading newspapers and articles on the Internet instead of books, we lose something important as books become a smaller part of our culture.   

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