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Amazon's 3rd Annual Most Well-Read Cities in America - 2013
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Is there any way to compare this list with previous years' lists? I know Ann Arbor has always been high - probably because of the university there.
(sometimes I think that me, all by myself, should make that list -I've been on a book buying rampage lately.) |
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So Ann Arbor started at #4 (I pick that because I live just outside A2), and is now down to #6. I wonder whether that's because they're not reading (from Amazon) as much, or whether other cities are just ordering more books from Amazon (maybe due to loss of B&M bookstores?)
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It seems to be only Amazon data and does not include other companies data.
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Portland, Oregon seems to me to have the most avid readers of any place I've been - so many people everywhere you look toting around and reading books on public transportation, in parks and on the street. I felt right at home. They have their own amazing, giant (a full city block, several stories) legendary bookstore - Powell's Books. I bet if the data included all books bought and sold, Portland would be near the top.
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So what do we make of Miami still at #6? Too hot, most of the year, to do much else? And where's Madison?
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This is not a list of the most well read cities. This is a list of cities that bought more books from Amazon. Bah!
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Borders (the book store) originated in Ann Arbor. I remember visiting their original store sometime around 1990. It was huge with an awesome selection. And since nothing succeeds like excess, they went on to expand and collapse.
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04-24-2013, 09:34 PM | #15 |
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I guess most people in NOLA are too busy dancing in the streets for NOLA to make the list. I do what I can to take up the slack, though I'm in a formerly rural, now suburban town n. of the lake that was home to Walker Percy. We have a wonderful public library, with a better eBook selection than New Orleans Public.
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