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Originally Posted by Soldim

Really? That surprises me somewhat. Do you have numbers?

Don't know why it should surprise you. It is no secret that recreational reading is a minority hobby. These numbers are a few years old, but:

http://www.humorwriters.org/startlingstats.html

I can't find stats on the number of times a movie is watched in a year (in all ways-- at the theater, DVD rental, streaming, premium cable, over-the-air) but I have no doubt that it is an order of magnitude above the number of times a book is read.