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Originally Posted by Phogg
I'll move that one step further and suggest as many as twenty percent of US readers are rural or small town people who don't even have a local library. Readers are more likely to seek a remote residence than people who engage in pastimes requirinv a population base larger than a few people.
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The vast majority of the population lives in towns large enough to have a library. I'm originally from a small town, and in my experience, people in cities are much more likely to be readers than those in small towns. Readers tend to want to live where they have ready access to book stores and libraries. Having to drive an hour to get to a bookstore isn't conducive to reading.