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The number of people who read for fun appears to be steadily dropping. Fifty percent of UK adults say they don’t read regularly (up from 42 percent in 2015) and almost one in four young people aged 16 to 24 say they’ve never been readers, according to research by The Reading Agency.
But what are the implications? Will people’s preference for video over text affect our brains or our evolution as a species? What kind of brain structure do good readers