Do the kids and teenagers read nowadays?

I think teenagers still read but from the computer screen. There still a some small percentage who read books.

I think children aged about 10-15 are reading more than the previous generation did 10-15 years ago. For a start there is the Harry Potter phenomenon. When the last book came out, pretty much every child had purchased a copy on the first day and was reading it. About 15 years ago it would have been unthinkable for an entire class of children to be eagerly reading a book - in those days, only a few of us book-worms read, and the rest listened to music. I think the internet has changed things too, because it is a text-based medium. Teens now surf online and are reading quantities of stuff - mostly articles, but they are reading and expanding their knowledge, esp with the advent of Wikipedia. Whereas 15 years ago, visual/picture- based media like movies and TV were king, and people got most of their information at the cinema - which was dangerous as Hollywood's version of history is always completely wrong. For example, in WW2, most of the breakthroughs in Europe came from the efforts of Brits, with help from Poles, Dutch, French and others, the American role was to provide the money and the Americans were focused mainly on the Pacific war. The capture of the enigma machine was done by the Royal Navy and the breaking of the Nazi codes was done by Brits and a collection of European exiles at Bletchley Park - but the American movies always pretend it was America that did all those things, indeed they pretend that the Europeans did nothing at all during the war except wait for Americans to rescue them! So I think the current situation is a big improvement, as people now get truer information about the world and history and less propaganda.

I don't think that teenagers read these days. Only a few of them. I am a teenager and I don't read, and also I have very few friends who read books.