Gone are the days when reading a book was the preferred means to knowledge, replaced by the rapid consumption of digital media and the allure of screen-based entertainment. This phenomenon is growing in America, and it is pronounced among our youth.

The inference is that we appear to be reading less these days, and while our attention span does not yet rival that of the much-maligned goldfish (allegedly nine seconds), it is getting discernibly shorter. 

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