Reading is Hard Work that’s Worth It

Josh Cook
6 min readMay 22, 2024
Photo by Gülfer ERGİN on Unsplash

According to a recent YouGov survey, just over 50% of Americans “read at least one book” last year. The figure steadily decreases as the number of books read rises.

This is hardly shocking. We’re exposed to a more diverse and distracting range of media than ever before. For many of us, reading in the traditional sense can feel like a death sentence.

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Josh Cook

Writing about writing, literature, & philosophy. Fiction, sometimes, too.