personally i love to read books, but it must be the right one. ill read for 7-10 hours straight. but the problem i see, is when I get home i have the urge to go on my comp and when im on my comp i no longer have the urge to read. but when i dont go on my comp ill read the book 500-1000 pages in a single night.

Technology plays a big part, as has been said. It's a lot easier and faster to plop on the sofa and watch harry potter. For some people, even the smallest Harry Potter book could take a week.
Another factor is (as with everything else) parenting. If the parents don't motivate or encourage their child to read, chances are that the kid isn't going to do it themselves, and with kids, it's all about motivation. Tell a child reading is cool and they're going to start reading. Then they find the psychological and intellectual benefits and continue to read. It's a chain process, but if it isn't started, it's very hard to build.

Y'know, I'm not much of a reader, but to say the Harry Potter series aren't "real" books is not true at all. They're extremely well written, and I'm pretty sure the whole series totals up to something like 3,000 pages.

Eh... no. children so pass the in video games.
That should be got much time because they do not learn nothing, only violence hehe

books fall under the lines off "lame" or "not cool" so no i dont read. but then again im not a kid.

I'm 14, I don't really like reading, but sometimes I do.

I love writing though. (With keyboard, handwriting is sucky)

I'm writing 100 chapter horror novel.

No, no they dont, im 13 and i read alot, i try to read at tournys untill its my turn or betting servers, otherwise no theres not enough reading these days.

Its not that kids arent reading but its parents and teachers arent requiring them to.
I went through the whole 8th grade without being required to read one full book.

That's weird, my 8th grade we read 2. But that's not the point. Kids don't want to be forced to read and neither do I. If you can get a kid to start reading on their own, they might just find out they like reading.

Read deep shit like 1984.