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Paperback romance of the disposable Harlequin-type alone took up 4 entire 4-column spinner-racks at the physical library branch I visited over the weekend (it also had an entire row-length bookcase, filled on both sides, of hardcover/TPBs in the "permanent" section).
By contrast, Mystery/Suspense/Thriller/Horror was in 2nd place with 3 spinner-racks and SF/Fantasy combined with (sigh) 1 1/2. And part of one of the SF/F/H spinner columns was filled with what looked to be paranormal romance.
The province-wide e-library, on the other hand, tends to mainly get in literary and bestseller-type general fiction, DIY cooking/crafts/personal finance for dummies and political/pop-history non-fiction, with occasional surges of romance and mystery.
Clearly somebody's reading them, and I don't mind as long as it helps subsidize the acquisition of my own preferred (and obviously less popular) genres.
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