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?

  • wolf_kisses@alien.topBEnglish
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    1 year ago

    A coworker said one of her fondest memories was reading the Harry Potter series with her daughter who did not like books. Her daughter fell in love with the series. They’d read together. By the time Half Blood Prince and Deadly Hallows were released her daughter was in college, but they talked about every chapter over the phone. Reading with your child also grants beautiful bonding moments.

    This is one of my fondest memories too. I was in 5th grade when the books started coming out and I got the first Harry Potter book as a gift from my Aunt. Both my Aunt and my father read every single HP book along with me (not together or out loud, but at the same time as me) and we talked about them together. We would hypothesize what was going to happen in the next books. My dad and I went to midnight book releases with me as the rest of the series came out. When the movies started coming out we went and saw them all together too, some as midnight showings.