Wednesday, April 11, 2012

Adapting to e-Reading?

Found this online the other day:

Americans adapt to e-reading, Pew study finds

Well, this certainly does not describe me.  (Though if more than 1 in 5 Americans have read e-books, I guess that means about 4 in 5 haven't...and if 30% of Americans own e-reading devices, 70% don't.)

I like this part..."E-book readers say they are reading more."  The averages given are 24 books for e-book readers in a year, and 15 for non-e-book readers.  Well, let me ruin their averages a bit.  I've easily read 60-65 books in the past year, NONE of them in electronic form.  (My reviews to date have been posted since May 2011, I forget exactly how many there are now, but it's over 50.  There are 3 out-of-genre books I've posted, as well, and when I started the blog, I was only reviewing new books that I read, though I read some older fantasy novels as well, which I did not post review for.  Now I am reviewing every fantasy novel I read, but there are probably 4 or 5 that got missed during the transition.)

Notice I put the word "say" in italics in the previous paragraph.  I wonder if people actually keep track of the books they read in a year?  It's easy for me, because most of what I read gets reviewed on this blog.  But I'll bet there are a good number of people who are buying more books, which may or may not actually get read.  And because they're buying more books, they think they're reading more books.

Yeah, I guess I read SOME digital content, because I only get the New York Times on weekdays, since I'm a grad student with a pittance for a stipend.  So I do look at the weekend editions online.  But that's not a book, either.

Anyway, are you all e-readers or not?  And how many books do you read in a year?

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