Survey results - Reading
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Your preferred places for recreational reading (multi-choice) |
Restaurants, airports and cars were other locations. Bedtime reading is clearly popular as is the bathroom which was proportionately more popular with men.
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Source of books read in the last 12 months. (multi choice) |
Second-hand and charity shops were the other sources of your books.
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What type of books you consume. (multi choice) |
‘Others’ included several mentions of children’s books, westerns, DIY and poetry. About 10% were ‘omni-readers’. The rest could be categorised as fiction, factual, fantasy or lifestyle readers.
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The preferred reading environment |
Loud music, Talk radio and TV on did not attract a single vote |
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Composition of your library |
Those with a small library had a higher proportion of factual and reference books. Is it the fiction that is dumped when you move? |
Almost two thirds of the respondents were female. Those completing the survey were spread evenly over the age ranges .
However, there was no detectable gender or age difference in the responses to any of the questions.
The respondents claim to read nearly one book a week (49.8 per week) but the spread was enormous. Five to ten per year was nearer the norm.
Over half of the replies came from Europe and a quarter from North America.
The sample this month was relatively small with only 61 surveys to analyse from over 110,000 visitors to the site during February.
