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   From: psperson@old.netcom.invalid   
      
   On Sat, 24 Jan 2026 07:33:49 -0500, "Evelyn C. Leeper"   
    wrote:   
      
   >On 1/24/26 07:00, Gary McGath wrote:   
   >> On 1/23/26 10:34 PM, Jay Morris wrote:   
   >>>  From a YouGov poll.   
   >>>   
   >>> With most Americans reading no books or just a few books, and a    
   >>> minority reading lots of books, that means that the distribution of    
   >>> the total books read in the U.S. is very unequal. The 4% of Americans    
   >>> who say they read 50 or more books alone account for 46% of all books    
   >>> read. Add in the 6% of Americans who read between 20 and 49 books, and    
   >>> the 9% who read between 10 and 19 books, and the top 19% of U.S. adult    
   >>> citizens account for 82% of all books read in 2025.   
   >>    
   >> I'm somewhere in the 10-19 range, but most of the books I read are    
   >> substantial nonfiction works, so I think that counts for more than    
   >> people who read a "cozy" novel a week. Currently I'm plowing through    
   >> _Toscanini: Musician of Conscience_, which is huge.   
   >>    
   >At 944 pages, that is substantial, but (ever the competitor) I will note    
   >that I'm about a third of the way through the Everyman edition of George    
   >Orwell's essays, which clocks in at 1416 pages.   
   >   
   >OTOH, I am also reading a lot of the "Very Short Introduction" series,    
   >which run about 150 pages each, so I guess it balances out.   
   >   
   >Last year, I read 106 books, about 60% non-fiction and 40% fiction of    
   >various sorts (SF, mystery, mainstream). I will note that I am retired    
   >and am no longer a caregiver, which does give me more time to read than    
   >many people have.   
      
   I haven't counted them, but I am reading mostly eBooks, all fiction. I   
   am rereading some non-fiction books, and then there are the   
   (non-fiction) magazines, whose primary purpose is to give me something   
   to read at the laundromat.   
      
   Incidentally, in the eBook series where I catch up on previous read   
   authors, I found that /Farnham's Freehold/ is now available on Kindle.   
   So I'll be rereading Heinlein again for a while, once I finish my   
   final Haldemann.   
   --    
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   Who evil spoke of everyone but God,   
   Giving as his excuse, 'I never knew him.'"   
      
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