Power cable linking UK and Ireland now passes near Bronze Age human burial remains instead of fictional grave on Welsh beach
Update: further information by @BigDiction@lemmy.world in the comments below
Power cable linking UK and Ireland now passes near Bronze Age human burial remains instead of fictional grave on Welsh beach
Update: further information by @BigDiction@lemmy.world in the comments below
The books (especially the first) were one of the biggest best sellers of all time and an international success long before there were movies or any “media empire”, saying it didn’t spawn a lot readers is just … dumb.
I’m pretty sure a lot more people have read the books than thre is Harry Potter fans these days, simply because most people eventually grow out of it.
Reading one book, or a single series of books doesn’t make you a reader. I wouldn’t claim to be a plumber just because I’ve fixed my sink a handful of times.
The idea that Harry Potter spawned a “generation of readers” is entirely manufactured by its publishers, there’s no data backing that claim up..
Nobody said it was a revolution for reading or literacy, but just by sheer number the book still has still likely spawned more readers than any other books in recent decades.
I never read books as a kid for fun, until the 7th book came out when I was in high school. I read them all and never stopped.
HP definitely was one of the most commonly read books by most of my peers, and I’m afraid kids would have read much less without them (in my generation, before the movies were made)
I’m not saying that no one got into reading because of Harry Potter, I’m saying that it’s not the spark of a reading boom, like you often see. This survey shows an ongoing decline in reading, which Harry Potter did nothing to budge.
It’s great that some people got into reading because of a mediocre fantasy series about a rich trust fund baby’s journey to become a cop, but they’re outliers and again, fixing a sink does not a plumber make.