They currently read 1-4 pages Wikipedia if they can keep from being distracted for phone texts during it. Only Harry Potter for "long form" reading. Books are dead (infuriating to me!).
In the great 1960 version of H.G. Wells' The time Machine, the man from the past tries to find a way to educate the wimpy, weakling modern Eloi in the future (such as how to make the fingers create a fist).
He is told there are books on shelves. He says "Oh, good, this will be helpful and these, too." He tries to pick them off the shelf and they crumble like old brittle plaster in a slum. "You blew it."
See my post. 27.