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Originally Posted by Katsunami
Then maybe I'm in the wrong country.
I know a lot of people, and apart from ONE (1) other, NOBODY reads.
If they need to read something, even a PDF of 10 pages for work, they balk at it as if it is a punishment given for something they've done wrong.
One of the biggest reasons for teenagers to drop all language classes apart from Dutch (which is... uh... obviously still mandatory) is that they need to read 25 books for their final exam, per language. If I remember correctly. In my time, it was actually 40 or somehting. And you've got 3 years to do it.
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I admit I have no idea how well Amazon or B&N do in the Netherlands, but I can only recall knowing decidedly few people who claim to NOT read. One of them, we talked him in to trying a book.
I live in what I think is a fairly typical middle-class NE US suburb, and my son's public elementary school does well with book fairs, library events, and his friends all seem to have favorite book series (Origami Yoda, Diary of Wimpy Kid, Jack Reacher, etc).
ApK
I'm kidding about Jack Reacher.