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Connonym Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Aug-21-07 05:52 PM
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These are the folks that make up the mysterious 25% of America that still support W
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<snip> One in four adults say they read no books at all in the past year, according to an Associated Press-Ipsos poll released Tuesday. Of those who did read, women and seniors were most avid, and religious works and popular fiction were the top choices. http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070821/ap_on_re_us/reading_habits_ap_poll
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Lavender Brown Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Aug-21-07 06:14 PM
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1. Honestly, I'm surprised that the number of people who don't read isn't higher
I know a lot of seemingly intelligent people who never pick up a book if they can help it. :shrug:
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Skittles Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Aug-21-07 07:00 PM
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2. I thought the same thing
I would have guessed it was three out of four. Me, I read all the damn time - I love hitting Half-Price Books monthly and bringing home a stack of books :)
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Lavender Brown Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Aug-21-07 07:06 PM
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4. I just joined BookMooch.com...
It's great for books you can't find in the library... you exchange books you've read with other people and get ones from your wishlist in return. :)
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Skittles Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Aug-21-07 07:57 PM
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8. WOW Lavender thank you for the tip!!!
I will certainly check it out!! :hi:
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DarkTirade Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Aug-22-07 03:03 AM
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14. That's brilliant...
Edited on Wed Aug-22-07 03:03 AM by DarkTirade
*edit* and now it's bookmarked in my browser. :)
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GoddessOfGuinness Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Aug-21-07 09:14 PM
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13. Many are probably ashamed that they don't read...
...and I wonder what percentage of those who said they read religious material actually read.
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XemaSab Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Aug-21-07 08:43 PM
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11. But the number of people who have enough shame to LIE about the number of books they read...
:shrug:
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Oeditpus Rex Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Aug-21-07 07:06 PM
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3. Whenever people talk about 'reading'
I always figure they mean the "right" books — classics and best-sellers. At least, that's what I got from being in an AOL book group. Virtually no one in the group had read the stuff I read, which can be sorted into two basic categories: history and baseball (mostly baseball history), and I felt like a pariah because of that.

So, what is "reading," really? :shrug:
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ruiner4u Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Aug-21-07 07:19 PM
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5. hmmm...
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DS1 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Aug-21-07 07:23 PM
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6. Yeah, that's nice
Hey everyone, I'm sorry I didn't read a book last year, I've been busy doing my regular job and doing contract work on the side ( and drinking beer ).

Really. Does fiction count? It shouldn't. Not in my opinion. Sure it can expand the mind, but if you're going to lump reading ratios in with politics, I think you should stick to non-fiction books. I've read a hell of a lot of those.

Oh wait, do my technical php/css/mysql books count? :eyes:
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mainegreen Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Aug-21-07 08:15 PM
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9. Some technical books should count as 3 if you make it through them.
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DS1 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Aug-21-07 08:33 PM
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10. I once stayed up all night reading MS SQL 6.0 Unleashed front to back
so I could install it in a bank without screwing up

Do they still make those Unleashed books?
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mainegreen Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Aug-22-07 05:10 AM
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16. I believe they do.
I have to say this: MSSQL 6 was evil. Just evil.
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AlCzervik Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Aug-21-07 07:35 PM
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7. they're busy watching porn.
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XemaSab Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Aug-21-07 08:44 PM
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12. or goofing off on the 'net
:hide:
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Manifestor_of_Light Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Aug-22-07 03:45 AM
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15. Bodice rippers and Left Behind type drivel, apparently.
They're probably lying too.

Bodice rippers? Romances? Yuck. To me that's like soap operas. Yucko.

Fiction? I'm not much on that either, and I'm female.

Biographies and various things excerpted in the New Yorker, I suppose, I read.

You can subscribe to the New Yorker for $24 a year and read excerpts and long reviews of books coming out. By the end of the year you will have read good chunks of 10 or 25 better-than-average books.

What I have been reading lately: Reading Lolita in Tehran, The Assault on Reason, Teacher Man.


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RebelOne Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Aug-22-07 06:49 AM
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17. I am sure that I can say that I read more than anyone on this forum.
I am a copy-editor for 10 outdoors magazine. I read and copy-edit 80 articles a month, which averages out to 960 a year. And I don't just read them once. I do a quick one-time read and then go back over each one and read them word for word. That's a lot of reading.
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