>50% Americans read Fewer than 2-3 books in 2023

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:More than half of Americans read fewer than 2-3 books in 2023. Do these figures not include audio books? Just wow.


Just over half of all Americans said they read at least one book in 2023. Most of them read just a few books this year: 82% of Americans read 10 or fewer books.

Dec 21, 2023
https://today.yougov.com › articles
54% of Americans read a book this year | YouGov

Just looked at my good reaDS profile. 5 boks in 18 days.

[Anonymous]

Orwell feared a world where books were banned. Huxley feared a much darker world where books weren’t banned because no one cared. This thread would indicate Huxley’s fear has reached fruition.

For the readers on this DCUM forum devoted to reading, have any of you read Postman’s Amusing Ourselves to Death?

[Anonymous]

A forum full of readers being duped because they didn't read the method used for this survey is kind of ironic.

The conclusions were based on 1500 responses to the American Community Survey. The short version of the survey takes about 10 minutes to fill out. The long version takes 40. Some people report being harassed to complete it. How accurate do you think it is?

Methodology: Respondents were selected from YouGov’s opt-in panel using sample matching. A random sample (stratified by gender, age, race, education, geographic region, and voter registration) was selected from the 2019 American Community Survey. The sample was weighted according to gender, age, race, education, 2020 election turnout and presidential vote, baseline party identification, and current voter registration status. Demographic weighting targets come from the 2019 American Community Survey. Baseline party identification is the respondent’s most recent answer given prior to November 1, 2022, and is weighted to the estimated distribution at that time (33% Democratic, 31% Republican). The margin of error for the overall sample is approximately 3.5%.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Literally 1/2 of aneurysms are going to vote for trump. You think they are reading for pleasure?

This aneurysm voted for Trump and will do so again. I read over 40 books in 2023 - Demon Copperhead, Tomorrow and Tomorrow and Tomorrow, Hamnet, David Sedaris' latest, Isaacson's bio of Elon Musk and dozens more. I love reading and identify as libertarian. Trump's presidency was miles better than Biden's by nearly every measure. Biden brought us an inflation spike, a proxy war, divisive rhetoric instead of being a "uniter" and the Bidens are lying to the public about his diminished mental capacity.

[Anonymous]

Another Republican here.

Read 70 books, mostly nonfiction.

[Anonymous]

The amount of books read matters much less than the quality of those books. One could be reading 20 trashy novels, and gain less wisdom than a person who read 3 books of intellectual value.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I hate reading. I read so slowly and my mind wonders to more interesting things in my life.
Also, so many books are so repetitive.
Please recommend an interesting book to read under 300 pages.

The Machine Stops by E.M. Forster

[Anonymous]

I read maybe one grown-up book per month. I'm always reading books to my kids though. Right now it's Ramona.