Seriously? They’re out reading? I never would have guessed and they are my peers too. Lol.
HA! My DH and I were just talking about this Sunday. Seems the libraries are either fabulous (like the ones at and around Universities) or they are abysmal, like the ones in small communities. I was so disgusted with my local library when I discovered that they didn’t have decent copies of the classics. For more recent releases you have to wait on a waitlist for months on end. I went to a few fund-raisers for the library, but they failed to raise big amounts of money to effect any measureable change. The “donation” books looked mostly like books that had been rescued from the ocean floor.
I’d be willing to bet that the school factor is the biggest determining factor here. I’d be curious to see how this study would stand up to the same study done 10, 20, 30, 40 years ago. My guess is that, because of school, the younger crowd has always out-read the older crowd. I’d suspect that something else influencing it is the fact that reading is now pushed in schools much more heavily than it was in years past. When I was a kid we did a few book reports each year and the teachers told us the values of reading. When my son was in school it was about the same, although there were more contests and activities to encourage reading than when I was a kid. With my daughters, they are required to have an age-appropriate book to read at all times. If they finish with an assignment or have some other period of quiet time, they’re expected to read. They also have a couple periods each week devoted to quiet reading time. This reading is over and above any assigned reading or book reports.
This is why I got a Kindle.
Sorry but being a Millennial, I just acknowledge that worrying over money is emotionally unhealthy. That doesn’t mean I have plenty of free time on my hands.
Managing your cash flow doesn’t always have to do with how old you are. I’d go as far and say that books on wealth creation are among the many books we read. 