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Originally Posted by HarryT
I'm on track to read about 130 books this year, every one of which is bought (I don't borrow books). And that's in a world in which the CEO of Britain's largest bookstore, Waterstone's, defines a "heavy reader" to be someone who reads a book a month. We here at MR are at the extreme end of the bell curve of readers. We shouldn't take our own reading experiences to be remotely representative of the "real world". We're freaks  . |
I think that very few people read more than 1-2 books per year. Everybody I know except for one person, only read when on vacation. Then they read 1-2 books, and that's it for the entire year.
So yeah, if you read 12 books a year, you're a heavy reader compared to that. I mostly read in public transport, which nets me around 30 books a year, which would be very heavy reading. 50+, let alone 100+, is an unimaginable amount of reading for the average person.