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News Summary: Study Shows Sharp Decline in Reading for Pleasure; Google Launches Gemini Storybooks App

As writers, many (not all, as for the purposes of this item reading for pleasure is differentiated from reading for work or study) of us rely for our living on the fact that people love reading for…
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News Summary: Study Shows Sharp Decline in Reading for Pleasure; Google Launches Gemini Storybooks App

A new study shows a 40 percent drop in reading for pleasure; Google introduces its AI-driven Gemini Storybooks app for children.

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News Summary: Study Shows Sharp Decline in Reading for Pleasure; Google Launches Gemini Storybooks App

A new study shows a 40 percent drop in reading for pleasure; Google introduces its AI-driven Gemini Storybooks app for children.

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Show threadCory DoctorowFeb 10, 2023

In "Examining inequality in the time cost of waiting," published this month in *Nature Human Behavior,* public affairs researchers @SteveBHolt (#SUNY) and Katie Vinopal (#OhioState) analyze data from the #AmericanTimeUseSurvey (#AUTS) to produce a detailed, vibrant quantitative backstop to the qualitative narrative about time poverty:

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41562-023-01524-w

(The paper is paywalled, but the authors made a mostly final preprint available)

https://osf.io/preprints/socarxiv/jbk3x/download
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Examining inequality in the time cost of waiting - Nature Human Behaviour

Holt and Vinopal use nationally representative data from the American Time Use Survey to find that low-income people are more likely to wait, and to wait longer, when using basic services relative to high-income people.

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