Readers respond to a librarian who wrote that listening to a book qualifies as reading. To the Editor: Re “Yes, Listening to a Book Counts as Reading,” by Brian Bannon (Opinion guest essay, Nov. 23): ...

Even in the cold, book readers were out in force around town — on trains, waiting for the Metro, at the gym and walking down the street.

Reading books is tied to a longer life, research reveals. A study has found just discovered that book readers lived an average of two years longer than those who did not read at all. Those who read ...

William Falk, Editor-in-chief of The Week magazine, wrote the following short column: A Yale study that tracked 3,635 people over 12 years found that book readers lived an average of two years longer ...