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Where You Fall in US Reading Habits

I suspect almost all of us here are readers, but according to this news story (and others like them), the US is not a nation of readers. This pretty much confounds me, since my house is always bursting at the scenes with books. Books fill my life, house, car . . . you get the idea. And I can never find a parking place at the Barnes & Noble! (But that may be the coffee . . . ). How many books do I read a year? Who the fuck knows? Maybe --- 50 to 70?

Among the interesting tidbits in the article:

One in four adults say they read no books at all in the past year . . . At the same time, book enthusiasts abound.

Women read more than men; Democrats read more than Republicans; Southerners read a bit more than the rest of the country; seniors read more, whites read more than Blacks or Hispanics . . .

Oh yeah--I'm an old, white, Democrat-type, college-educated broad, now living in Texas . . . maybe that's why!