July 14, 2010 July 14, 2010/ Adam Sinnett The average American adult reads fewer than nine books annually, and spends seventeen times as much time watching television as reading (including all reading - magazines, newspapers, etc)…in two decades alone, from 1982 to 2002, there was a 10 percent decline in literary reading among adults in the United States. — T. David Gordon, Why Johnny Can’t Preach (p35-36)