The Dangers of Not Reading

Matt Fish
5 min readApr 15, 2021
School Girl with Book in front of natural rustic red brick background holding book up to her face.

“There is more treasure in books than in all the pirates’ loot on Treasure Island and best of all, you can enjoy these riches every day of your life.”

— Walt Disney

The decline in a collective appetite for reading, especially in the United States, is not a new phenomenon.

As per the New Yorker’s Caleb Crain, the U.S. Department of Labor’s American Time Use Survey…

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Matt Fish

Writer, content creator, music obsessive, DJ, currently sitting down.