A bookworm's joy in living on borrowed time

Of all the new year resolutions I made for 2015, I have achieved just one: to read at least 40 books.

The reason for the resolution was that I realized I had been spending too much time reading material on the two major social media networks WeChat and Weibo.

I am not alone. Recent research has found that Chinese are now spending more time reading digital material than books and magazines. An adult reads 40 minutes a day on WeChat, and on average people read 4.6 books last year, the research by the Chinese Academy of Press and Publication found.