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Originally Posted by Elfwreck
Statistics about "how many books did you partially read in the last year" are not particularl
y useful anymore; they don't tell us anything about the state of literature in the US.
In the 90s, people who didn't read books sometimes read magazines or newspapers, but mostly got their entertainment & education from tv, movies, or radio. Today... a person can "not read books" but still spend a substantial amount of time reading both fiction and nonfiction.
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This thread has reminded me of my Year of Stress where all I read was fanfiction. I'm not sure I'd have thought to include those among books I read despite the fact that many of them are as long and as well plotted as your average fiction book.
Even now my fiction reading slot is still mostly taken up by fanfiction, I've just vastly increased the amount of nonfiction I read.