Phillip Fleck Covidâs Hit On Education And Literacy Levels Will Impact A Generation â Can Ebooks Help Us? Before the pandemic, literacy levels were already in decline. Now with the education sector struggling, can we utilise a new eBook service by Nimble Stories to rediscover âReading Is Fun(damental)â? BriefingWire.com, 2/20/2021 - Scholastic US research indicates that of children who had read an eBook, 26% of boys and 16% of girls said they were reading more books as a result. National Literacy Trust research found that boys were significantly more likely to say that they read on screen (65.7%) than in print (55.4%) outside school.[1]