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Originally Posted by cybear
that doesn't really surprise me...but i wonder what was the cutoff for "adult" in the stats bc college students usually read a lot of books for classes, but not necessarily for pleasure. if they did include adult students, the numbers may be even worse for the general public. i also think that after graduating there is a period of time where people generally don't read much at all bc they are burnt out from school and then pick up reading for pleasure later on.
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That brings up another point. How good are peoples responses on this sort of thing? I'm a college student in my last semester. If you asked me how many books I've read in the last year, I wouldn't think to include textbooks. I'd also probably forget to count a lot of the non-fiction books I've read. After I forced myself to scrounge my memory for every book I'd read in the last year, I was surprised at how much more it was than I would have initially answered. I think readers like myself have a sort of book amnesia similar to the forgetfulness overeaters exhibit. Just while I am typing I notice a stack of books in the corner I recall reading a few months ago. I'd guess over average readers like myself may undercount our reading.