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Originally Posted by elcreative
Have to disagree with your estimate on re-reading but that could just be my entire circle of reading friends and thus anecdotal but certainly lower than 95% new to them.
But 100 books a year may make you an above average reader but wouldn't qualify as avid by my (and my friends') standards... that comes in more like 50-75 per quarter... and most of those are new purchases, many in hardback...
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From what I've seen, taking the whole population into account, an "average" reader would be about 2 books a year. The percentage of the population that reads more than 1 book a month is probably down around the 20% mark. I'm not going go anywhere near qualifying "avid" with whether or not the books are new, used, borrowed or re-reads, or hardcover or soft cover.