A study published in the journal Psychological Medicine in June 2023 examined the possible benefits of reading for pleasure. This topic of research is very important since reading for pleasure seems ...

After crunching numbers, a team from University College London and the University of Florida found that the number of Americans who read books for fun on any given day fell 40 percent between 2003 and ...

Researchers fear the reading decline reflects how many Americans have less and less leisure time. “Reading for pleasure, among other forms of arts participation, is a health behavior,” said one author ...

Another study that takes a stab at trying to determine how much, or how little, Americans read has been released. The new report looked how reading for pleasure and reading with children fared between ...

In our anxious, tech-filled world, fewer of us are reading for pleasure. Here’s how to get back in touch with the joy of books. Maybe you missed the news because you were enjoying the last lazy days ...