First: I wanna clarify this. I know that loads of people read like 100 books a year, or read all the time. I know these people exist. I’m asking about people that are like… average. An average american who just… reads. Doesn’t track everything or sets goals of like 100, or never stops reading… Anyway, I’ve been searching this up, and i find answers like 15-50, even 100. I find this highly unlikely, especially for average US citizens. Half the people i know don’t even pick up 5 books a year, let alone 15! I just don’t believe these stats. I read somewhere that people read 8 a month on average? That can’t be right for an average person. That’s like 2 books a week… I know people do read this much, but still… For an average person? So be real… how many books do people actually read a year?
How many pages of social media doomscrolling counts as a book? Or how many articles? Engaging with the internet is a fairly high amount of reading outside of a book. I guess my answer is “it’s unknowable” which feels disappointing but I bet there’s a lot of reading that people do in ways that we can’t even really track
My spouse reads magazines. I love to read lots of books but I feel quite uncomfortable reading magazines.