Kids Rarely Read Whole Books Anymore. Even in English Class

You did not had to go out of your way to find fun books, they came to you. There was kids journals with mini reviews of books and sometimes asked parents to buy one, because review sounded cool. Kids do not read kids journals either, they watch youtube and no youtube channel recommends books.

But, adults do not read for fun anymore either. The sort of demographics that read dumb books dont read at all. Those who read more sophisticated books watch more sophisticated shows. Basically only people who regularly read are those who are consciously seeking education.

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School libraries do not have pulp novels in them and if they did quite a few parents would call riot. Including people who complain on HN that kids are not assigned <insert whatever novel written for adults dealing with adult relationships that go over kids heads>.

Kids cant go to normal libraries unless someone drives them or accompanies them. And that someone has typically educational goal in mind, so that feeling you can pick pulp/junk and not be judged is not there.

> Also TikTok and YouTube aren’t free FFS, they’re commodifying your data

I dont think kids care about that. Or most of the population, which includes their parents and teachers.

> kids can have book clubs just like adults do I would often hang out and talk to other kids about the books we both enjoyed reading.

Kids don't have book clubs. To be honest, adult book clubs are something I have seen only in the movies. If you organize a book club for kids, it is another educational activity like math club. It can lead to some kids liking reading/math ... but it does not mean there is overall "math is fun" culture existing.