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Originally Posted by Studio717
Is there any site that shows how these stats have changed over the last 50-100 years?
It's my guess that not all that many people have ever read a lot. I would also guess that reading peaked in the 1950s and 60s as it seems to me that that's when factors would most contribute to people reading: enough disposable income to actually buy books with enough leisure time to read, plus cable hadn't made a dent yet so tv was limited to (maybe) three networks, total. And, afaik, most people didn't go to movies multiple times during a given week.
Yes, there were and are libraries for the hard-core readers, but I'm talking about those who would read if given the opportunity, but wouldn't necessarily go out of their way to do so.
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Don't know, but while searching for that, I found
this. It has not much to do with this discussion, but I thought it was interesting.