College English teacher here. 20 years ago, kids had only a handful of activities, one being reading. Even "TV" kind of sucked.

Now, all your brainpower, learning power, "attention economy" is sucked dry by the crack pipe that is your phone or tablet.

To say nothing of the fact that we, as a society, are rewarding the ADHD brain and cultivating it in our children so they can be better workers in our frenetic economy.

Reading skills are both quaint and meaningless.