# Is reading dying? Spoiler: it's complicated

An episode of [Round Table China](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/podcast/793040690), 25 Aug 2026, 18 min.

Audio: https://dts.podtrac.com/redirect.mp3/radio-res.cgtn.com/ueditor/audio/2608/1087646497632.mp3

The obituaries for reading are written every week. Young people scroll past books, grades dip, professors mourn a lost age of deep thought. But the data refuses to cooperate with the gloom. In some corners of the world, reading is surging. Maybe the problem is not that reading is dying, but that we are looking for it in all the wrong places. On the show: Steve, Yushan & Yushun

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