Yes, I'll Read Another Book As Soon As My Television Program Is Over

If people had as little leisure time as they often claim, it would hardly be worth discussing how they use it. In fact, though, polling over the past quarter-century has shown remarkable stability in the amount of free time Americans have. In the latest Harris Poll on the topic, issued last month, the median number of leisure hours for adults was 19 per week. That’s where it stood in 1980, and the number has seldom varied by more than an hour from that figure in the years since.