How much do you read?


If you read more than ten books over the past year, you read more than roughly three-fourths of other Americans.

The flip side: Twenty-five percent of the population read no books at all during that time (or at least wouldn't admit to reading any, according to a recent survey.)

Some stats:

 . . .book readers consumed a mean (average) of 15 books in the previous 12 months and a median (midpoint) of 6 books — in other words, half had read fewer than six and half had read more than six. That breaks down as follows:

• 7% of Americans ages 16 and older read one book in the previous 12 months

• 14% had read 2-3 books in that time block

• 12% had read 4-5 books in that time block

• 15% had read 6-10 books in that time block

• 13% had read 11-20 books in that time block

• 14% had read 21 or more books in that time block

The full numbers (at the very bottom of the article, which includes a lot of ebook data) are here.