Article: Whatcha Readin'?: Summer Flings.(Page One)

Back when summer actually meant a few months of relaxing and down time to New Yorkers, one of the most treasured rituals was the weekly trip to the neighborhood bookstore, to choose a new book (or stack of books) to keep one company at the beach or in the mountains or in the air-conditioned idyll of one's bedroom. In these recent, highly compressed and enervated times, reading has too often gone the way of carbs and cigarettes, as former readers now skim through their Netflix queue, choosing which movies to tote with them to the beach to watch on their portable Samsung DVD L-300. But interviews with some notable New Yorkers and others indicate that reading retains a hint ...

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