More Brutal Facts
January 2nd, 2008 Tagged Brutal Facts
One in four Americans read no books last year.
Excluding the nonreaders, the average American reader read seven books last year.
Who are the twenty-seven percent who did not read a book last year? About 1/4 of women and 1/3 of men are nonreaders. Nonreaders have less education, are older, are from rural areas, are minorities, and are less religious.
The most avid readers are women, are over 50, and are college educated.
Most widely read were the Bible and other religious works, mysteries, biographies, histories, and popular fiction.
(This information was obtained from an article in the Washington Post, dated August 21, 2007.)
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