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pretty sure i am, although i didn't actually track the numbers that carefully.
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The data on most books read comes from our friend David Montgomery, “the spork pollster” who released the results of a new Economist/YouGov poll about America’s reading habits not long after we published last month’s column about America’s biggest readers. Though the Department of Data was supposed to be closed this week in honor of our annual holiday sabbatical, we couldn’t resist popping into the office to do a quick update.
So what did Montgomery find? Of 1,500 Americans surveyed, a less-than-ideal 46 percent finished zero books last year and 5 percent read just one. So, if you read more than two books in 2023, congratulations! You’re in the top half of U.S. adults.
Reading five books put you in the top 33 percent, while reading 10 books put you in the top 21 percent. Those of us who read more than 50 books are the true one-percenters: people who read more books than 99 percent of their fellow Americans.
One-percenter here with about 5 a week, including lengthy ones.
With that low a bar, probably many on this forum are one-percenters.
Not having to buy them makes it possible.
Hard for me to say, because if I get into a book I'm not enjoying, I don't finish it. Life is too short to waste time on a bad book. I would guess I probably read cover to cover maybe ten books or thereabouts. I probably started forty or more.
In 2023, I read a lot more non-fiction than usual, and I found my fiction tastes tending toward older works. A whole lot of modern fiction ... I wonder what happened to editors. Too many modern authors seem so desperate to be "original" and "timely" that they forget to be any good.
Welp, during the pandemic I decided one thing I want to accomplish during retirement is to read the top 100 novels of all time. So, I took the list my sister (an ex college level English teacher) gave me. Plus I went through several top lists and found one that had synthesized the top 100 by determining how many were all listed on several top 100 lists.
So, I bought those books and they are sitting there. I had to move all my nonfiction stuff and got rid of some of it. So, anyways they are sitting there and I am not going to get around to it anytime soon. I have to read at work and there is only so much my eyes can take. Though I admit I need to do more reading to see if it is something that I find relaxing (but, I kind of want to savor those books).
I don't read books very often. There really isn't enough time. However, I do read a lot and I mean a lot of random things, especially in the area of science on the internet. Articles, news, engineering specifications on cars and machines or whatever. I am chocked full of information that would be useless to most people. lol
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