LESS TIME TO READ.
RADIO AND MOTORING. "Everyone* can see how the popularity of the radio lessens the demand for books to fill up an idle hour, and attention has recently been called to the less obvious effect of the automobile habit," writes Mr. Herbert Horwill in the New York Times Book Review. "When all long distances were traversed by rail, the station bookstalls did a big business in fiction bought to while away the tedium of thq, journey. But the only publication the motorist can use while he is motoring is his road-book. And at the end of his day, when he has reached his hotel and finished his evening meal, he finds himself too tired to keep awake over even the lightest novel. "Moreover, many people who used to stay at home for the week-end and occupy their time largely in reading are now tempted by the possession of a car to go afield, and during these little holidays they seldom open a book."
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXIII, Issue 19390, 27 July 1926, Page 9
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