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Originally Posted by Quoth
There was a link on these forums to the number of books ordinary, avid and extreme readers can read before they die. If you actually have a life, it's a low number!
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I didn't keep my sources, since I didn't think anybody else would find the numbers useful, and all I am interested in, is the numbers
Reading:
- 0: Modal number of books read by an individual that are not work related, in one year;
- 8: Median number of books read by an individual that are not work related, in one year;
- 17: Mean number of books read by an individual that are not work related, in one year;
- 1,600: Number of books read by the average individual, that are not work related, in their entire lifetime;
Volumes in a Library:
- 500: Number of volumes in a home library needed to increase a child's educational level by 3.2 years;
- 4,000: Number of volumes in a book mobile;
- 5,000: Number of volumes in a personal professional library;
- 15,000: Number of volumes in a middle school library;
- 18,000: Number of volumes in a high school library;
- 27,750: Number of volumes in a public library in the United States in 1955;
- 52,701: Number of volumes in a public library in the United States in 1978;
- 87,427: Number of volumes in a public library in the United States in 2004;
- 150,000,000: Number of items in the British Library;
- 155,000,000: Number of items in The Library of Congress;
I think the library size data is from scouring the American Library Association website.