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   Verily, in article <10l2c80$p4c2$1@dont-email.me>, did garym@mcgath.com   
   deliver unto us this message:   
   >   
   > 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.   
      
   Counting the number of books does seem to leave important factors out.   
   Romance readers are notoriously voracious, but romances tend to be short   
   and simple, which is how they rip through so many.   
      
   Of course, many of the romance readers may now be generating AI smut   
   instead. It'll be interesting to see how that affects the fiction   
   market.   
      
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