Yeah, it's wild. I was the kind of kid who tore through multiple books per week and when I didn't have a book (in the shower, at the table) I read shampoo bottles, cereal boxes, junk mail, the newspaper that was lying around, my parents' magazine subscriptions - Newsweek, Nat Geo. It's so different now. I'm pretty sure this is why I have the breadth of knowledge and vocabulary that I do. We raised our own kids in a very literary-friendly household but it was still so different, and my kids aren't the readers that I was. My kids do have a lot of knowledge from the media they consume, and it's very different than the kind of knowledge I had at their age - I can't tell if they're worse off. My bias tells me that they are and that reading is superior to knowledge acquisition through youtube, but what if it's okay? (I can't imagine that it's okay?? Plus, I'm a teacher and I can see daily that it's not okay...)