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   From: garym@mcgath.com   
      
   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.   
      
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