One thing the last few years have taught us is not to trust polls.
But what polls there are suggest people aren’t reading books like they used to. A 2024 survey conducted by Test Prep Insight, a company that offers online training for various academic and professional exams, indicated that 48.5% of respondents hadn’t read any books in the past year. A YouGov poll found that 54% of Americans read a book in 2023, and that 82% of Americans read fewer than 10 books that year. A 2022 Gallup Poll reported that 17% of people surveyed did not read any books.
Anecdotally, I’ve recently encountered a 40-year-old college graduate with a seven-figure annual income who claims he’d never read a book “all the way” through in his life.
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