Jennifer Zwick's Photography: The Reader

I just love this photo by Jennifer Zwick titled The Reader, 2005 - if children can be inspired to read like this, perhaps we won't have the embarrassing recent poll result showing a quarter of Americans didn't read at all last year!

Link to Jennifer's awesome photographs | The photo above - via Fabulist

Update 8/23/07: Jennifer Zwick sent us the photo of the book the little girl (a hyperbolic representation of herself as a child), in case you're curious what she's reading: Book Spine, Inside Book - Thanks Jennifer!

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The article said that a quarter of people didn't read a book last year, not that they didn't read. As an adult in this 25%, I need to make the point that I read every day. I read blogs, news, and I never miss Neatorama. It's the media that's changing, not the amount of reading. Books are on the way to joining stone tablets and scrolls.

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of course you realize that the poll is stupid. when 6 billion copies of the last Harry Potter books sold, i don't think America has that much of a literacy problem.

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i'd be more inclined to go with the poll than how many harry potter books have been sold.
not reading books only shows lack of discipline and interest, nothing more

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Wasn't that poll targeting adults? Sure the Harry Potter books have a large adult reading audience but they sure as Hell don't constitute the majority of adults who don't read.