Are books going out of style (Christina)

I can honestly say that I did not "get" reading for pleasure until I was in college and it was out of pure necessity.  It's a shame, but somehow I made it through public school education escaping reading the classics.  At the time, I thought I had really pulled one over.  Fast forward to college, as a rising junior I found myself life guarding full time at a pool that rarely had swimmers on my shift.  I thought I would loose my mind from boredom and after complaining to my roommates, I was given The Vampire Lestat.  From the turn of the first page that summer, I was hooked!  I drank books down one after the other, story after story,  genre to genre. Reading is pure pleasure for me today, I find myself grumbling when life is too busy for me to quiety enjoy a book.  To the point of this post, it is a concern to think that reading could go out of style.  I am not sure where I heard this information, but an important study conducted by some important so so said - children are completely loosing their creativity and imagination because they are fed images (tv, video games, preschool technology games) at such an early age that they already have preconceived images planted in their minds and they are loosing the ability to create their own personal images/experiences from what they read.  This was devasting news because part of what I love about reading is creating the movie in my head, the faces and images in my own mind, without seeing them first.  You ask an important question.