Well, I have cracked many a Bible and I suggest you are letting your personal experience blind you to the fact that the Church has made a huge turnabout during the last sixty years. On the other hand, my Protestant grandmother probably spent far more time reading the Bible privately than most Protestants do today.
I am less than sixty years old. Things may have changed more in the last 20 or 30 but judging by the numbers and percentages of Catholics who are democrats and vote pro-abortion liberal in elections, I doubt many of them have ever cracked a Bible.