Reading time plummets among young French people. 16-19 year olds spend 1h25 per week reading compared to 5h10 per day on screens.

“There is now an addictive confinement with digital technology. We can talk about drugs, and in that, a new opium war,” says Régine Hatchondo, president of the National Book Center (CNL) The diagnosis comes down to one word: screen. At a time when we are inundated with permanent images, saturated with information, the screen is within reach.