The Great Book Divide

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"More frequent book readers tend to live in areas of lower deprivation with fewer children living in poverty, while respondents who never read books tend to live in areas of higher deprivation and more children living in poverty," the study says.

Correlation? Cause and effect? And if the latter, which is the cause and which is the effect?

And having a negative view of ebooks is not the same as having a negative view of reading, you doofuses. People who prefer LPs to CDs don't have a negative view of listening to music....