A Contemptible Industry

Board games are released with all these chits and miniatures these days and we expect people to buy a book with no add-ons, not even a detachable map and character dossiers like G.I. Joe. No wonder the people have given up on literacy.

How to Increase Leisure Reading

Pizza parties!

Addendum

For instance, coarse-grain sand could be Oarsecay-aingray andsay. Alternatively, use bars sinister and lions rampant to distinguish them. You don't have to bother learning how to read that way, which is a skill otherwise useless for sand mages.

History Corner

Historically, many people were literate, but you wouldn't believe what these jokers tried to pass off as handwriting. They didn't cotton to fancy notions like margins and spacing, either.