The Washington Post (11/1, George) reports, "Recreational reading has changed for teens in an era of ebooks and laptops and hours spent online, but experts and media specialists say there are signs of promise in spite of busy lives and research findings that show traditional book reading is down." According to the Post, research conducted by the University of Maryland's Sandra Hofferth found that pleasure reading "dropped 23 percent in 2008, compared with 2003, from 65 minutes a week to 50 minutes a week - with the greatest falloff for those ages 12 to 14. Still, she says: 'They could be reading on the cell phone, in games, on the Web, on the computer.'" Randi Adleberg, head of the high school English program at Robinson Secondary School in Fairfax County, adds that "if reading online and in game-playing are taken into account," then "the digital age has probably increased reading."
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