No. You are perfectly capable of reading two and a half books per month, and if you’re not able to purchase books you can easily get them from the library. What’s truly anti-intellectual is trying to discourage people from reading at a time when millions aren’t reading at all.
“When we decline to speak ill of the dead, it’s because we have compassion for the living. In this respect, I am sorry for Kirk’s children. I don’t know if Kirk was a good father, but if he was, that does little to mitigate the damage he did to other people’s children.”