Another important aspect is the capacity to analyze information which are in a written support.

Internet is a very important medium, the web remain important. People need to analyze, filter the massive informations available through internet.

So the skill you acquire and maintain reading novels or whatever, is important for being able to find the good information later on the internet.

The risk for a generation of people with bad reading skills is to accept the first information they receives without a critic analyzis. The social impact can be tremendous.

So reading is an important skills to preserve freedom of thinking.