There's a Japanese word that describes your pile of unread books: tsundoku. It dates back to the 1800s but feels especially relevant today — after all, we're reading less than we used to. Every ...

Speaking of autumn, it is the autumn of reading. I have always liked reading books.After finishing work and dinner, or during ...

On October 15th, I counted the books I had read this year.The result was 126 books.I am the one most surprised by this count.

After crunching numbers, a team from University College London and the University of Florida found that the number of Americans who read books for fun on any given day fell 40 percent between 2003 and ...

A perfect storm is brewing for reading. AI arrived as both kids and adults were already spending less time reading books than they did in the not-so-distant past. A new study shows the amount of ...

“Several people have told me lately that they’ve stopped being able to read, echoing my own experience,” author Katherine May confessed in her newsletter recently. Statistics suggest May and her ...

Around the world, young people are reading for pleasure less often, suggests a recent report. In Australia, 29% of high school students don’t read in their free time. So, how do we encourage our ...

Reading allows children to live in a vibrant world, surrounded by fairies, elves and talking animals, transporting them to places where the impossible becomes real. But reading for pleasure also helps ...

People take to public spaces clutching books not out of passion for reading, but to curate an image of intellect People take to public spaces clutching books not out of passion for reading, but to ...