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Originally Posted by chrisanthropic
100 books? I wonder where they got that number? It sounds completely made up to me, not that I disagree or would expect the numbers to be much higher than that though.
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Most people I know that read, will read a lot more than 100 books in their lifetime if they continue at their current rates. A conservative estimate of those readers may be around 10 books a year (they're not heavy readers unlike I expect most of us on mobileread). However, the number of people I know that don't read at all or read very lightly (1-2 books a year) is significantly greater.
I don't think it's much of a stretch to see how most people may be non/light-readers and will drag the average down. Whether it's made up or based on the logic pdurrant suggests, it does at least feel like a reasonable number to me.