A recent Gallup Poll found that "About one in every two Americans is currently engrossed in some type of book". The details are locked away for Gallup Poll subscribers, but some of their numbers appeared in an editorial in the Christian Science Monitor: "A Gallup poll taken in May found that 47 percent of Americans on any given day are reading a book. This is up from 37 percent in 1990, and 23 percent in 1957. The median number of books read in a year is five."
Don't you just love these numbers? They are So Very Not what pundits assume. Our library card holders average five check-outs per year, quite consistent with the survey numbers.
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