Comments on: Are Readers An Endangered Species?

By: Taylor

Taylor — Mon, 31 Oct 2011 15:16:49 +0000

Reading is always going to be important, yet there is a real lack of emphasis in technological advances to incorprate reading into the move forward. Technology today is almost anti reading, providing us with other means to get information without reading. There needs to be a balance or we will end up with a high tech illiterate society

By: Amy @ My Friend Amy

Amy @ My Friend Amy — Sat, 03 Apr 2010 17:09:10 +0000

I worry about the same thing. I also worry about how much education funding is getting cut and how more and more kids struggle to read period. I’ll go read the Slaughter article!

By: Pam

Pam — Sat, 03 Apr 2010 17:03:03 +0000

E-readers like DVD players, Blu-Ray and every other electronic product that comes out will eventually get cheaper and cheaper and the books will level off at paper back price eventually. It is something that will come to be and I think that the new storm of teens and pre-teens reading thanks to authors J.K. Rowling, and dare I say it? Stephanie Meyer have created a new generation of readers and increased the number of bookworms world wide.