[ziggytrix]

An honest answer to your question: with movies, television, magazines, the internet, and every other form of modern media, well, books are no longer the prime source of entertainment or education for a lot of people.

I know I read a lot more books before I started wasting so much time on BBS's and then the web.

A simple solution: steal a library and set up shop in a cave away from civilization where you won't have to notice as our books become antiquities.