I'm Not Sure the National Year of Reading Is Working. Here's Why

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It's past my bedtime, my microphone has given up the ghost, and I've got something to get off my chest: the National Year of Reading. I've been having a dig into where the money is going, and by my calculations the £150,000 set aside for libraries works out at around £41 per library. That's a fair few biscuits, but not many books. So I'm putting forward some ideas of my own for getting adults reading again: Book monitors: volunteers in tabards helping nervous shoppers find the right book, the way a good cheese shop lets you try before you buy Making reading cool again, with more famous faces seen with a book in hand Audiobooks and graphic novels as an easy way in Five minutes a day, with…