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    Millennials Are Out-Reading Older Generations

    But younger Americans value library services less than more senior cohorts, study finds.
    by Adrienne LaFrance Sep 10, 2014 1 minute
    Source: Albert Gea / Reuters

    Kids today with their selfies and their Snapchats and their love of literature.

    Millennials, like each generation that was young before them, tend to attract all kinds of ire from their elders for being superficial, self-obsessed, from the Pew Research Center offers some vindication for the younger set. Millennials are reading more books than the over-30 crowd, Pew found in a survey of more than 6,000 Americans.

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