Do you need to read books to be clever?

It's the National Year of Reading, reports Denise Winterman for the BBC News, but one in four adults say they haven't read a book in at least a year. With so many ways to get information in today's world, are books still needed?

While some people say they don't need books to be well informed, others, such as Honor Wilson-Fletcher, project director for the National Year of Reading, say that book reading remains a critical part of society. And Professor John Sutherland notes that book sales in the UK are on the rise and that Britain produces more titles per person than any other country.

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