tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8341428574937381261.post4056184793393517828..comments2023-12-02T08:20:51.219+00:00Comments on Mel's Random Reviews: Book Confession: Book Obsession?Melhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12232105105688358961noreply@blogger.comBlogger7125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8341428574937381261.post-63076716072408916332012-01-29T10:35:13.267+00:002012-01-29T10:35:13.267+00:00LOL. I love pub statiticians, bizarrely they often...LOL. I love pub statiticians, bizarrely they often have an element of truth in them! In this case it does sound about right. Even in a visit to Waterstones I always find people buying books buy more than one and as bloggers we probably buy more books than anyone. Thinking as well how easy and accesible it is to buy books from Amazon or The Book Depository nowadays it does make me think that your pub statitician was spot on.Lesleyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13514199000458672267noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8341428574937381261.post-59928810270642989102012-01-25T00:45:15.190+00:002012-01-25T00:45:15.190+00:00Slightly drunk? ROFL
I know people who go through...Slightly drunk? ROFL<br /><br />I know people who go through spurts in reading. You don't see them often with a book in hand and then for a week or month every so often you can not help but see them with one. *shrugs* So who knows... maybe it just has to be the right book at the right time. Don't know how that fits in with the 10% and (even though I'm not) I think I'm starting to sound a bit drunk... LOLMelissa (Books and Things)https://www.blogger.com/profile/00074452958853212024noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8341428574937381261.post-60577090921689424372012-01-24T22:55:50.224+00:002012-01-24T22:55:50.224+00:00Speaking to people at work, there are few people w...Speaking to people at work, there are few people who read a lot. Those who read one or two books every few months, some who read all the time. I fall in between these two camps (knitting gets in the way). I think that it might be a higher percentage of people. How every I do know that bookshops buy 100 per cent of the books they sell. <br /><br />My other half would say it was an addiction that affects his life as well as mine.Krispianhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05855806216021282739noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8341428574937381261.post-12390532188790927642012-01-24T20:39:22.669+00:002012-01-24T20:39:22.669+00:00I think that statistic could be true. I also reme...I think that statistic could be true. I also remember reading one last year and it was something like 60% of the adult population hadn't completed a book in the last five years - it makes me sad. I am always pushing books on people!<br /><br />I would say about half if not more of the children in my class come from homes where no one reads and the only print is newspapers/TV guides.Sam (Tiny Library)https://www.blogger.com/profile/16375434438465319913noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8341428574937381261.post-53397863812849118972012-01-24T18:54:05.458+00:002012-01-24T18:54:05.458+00:00I don't know about 10%, but it sounds about ri...I don't know about 10%, but it sounds about right that a small number of folks read a whole lot of books. The people in my life are polarized; either they don't read much or they read voraciously. The voracious are outnumbered, anecdotally.<br /><br />And it'll be a sad sad day for me if I ever reach the end of my TBR pile. Anticipation is half the fun!Barb Rudehttp://barbrude.wordpress.com/noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8341428574937381261.post-33895916320807583362012-01-24T15:03:06.996+00:002012-01-24T15:03:06.996+00:00That sounds about right to me, percentage-wise. Le...That sounds about right to me, percentage-wise. Let's face it, as much as reading has become more of a public hobby in recent years, the vast majority of people don't do much reading in their day-to-day lives. And the ones who do read tend to read a lot. Just looking at my bookshelves and the bookshelves of my roommate, I wouldn't argue that the minority of readers by the majority of books. When I see bookbloggers reviewing 50 books a year, 100 books, even more, and then I overhear adults bragging that they haven't read a single book since high school, then yes, I can completely believe it.<br /><br />Last time I went into a bookstore, I came out with 5 books. Ditto my roommate. And that doesn't include books I've bought through Amazon. So 10 books between 2 people. And that was just one trip to the store! I think we bought 5 each the time before that, too. So just from personal experience I can safely say that people who like to read will read -- and thus purchase -- a lot, whereas people who read only because they have to (school books, for example) will go entire years without purchasing anything.<br /><br />I am Bibliotropic, and I am the 10%!Bibliotropichttp://www.bibliotropic.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8341428574937381261.post-68205776479698314882012-01-24T11:13:39.477+00:002012-01-24T11:13:39.477+00:00No idea, but, I could see it. Especially now. Not ...No idea, but, I could see it. Especially now. Not before though, cos then I just read what I found and did not really influence anyone at allBlodeueddhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03435479623560871881noreply@blogger.com