[LMB] OT: Books per year

[Michael R N Dolbear]

> From: James Nicoll <jdnicoll at panix.com>
> Date: 01 June 2007 17:04
> 
> On Fri, 1 Jun 2007, Jim Parish wrote:

> > Hmmm. Is there reason to believe that the rate at which books are
> > *read* is close to the rate at which they are *bought*?
> >
>  	Good point. I mean, we don't even know that the books that are 
> bought are ever read. I know I never finished my CRC Handbook: the whole 
> thing is one long infodump and the plot is thin at best.

That was Anon's review of the telephone directory ?

My grandfather read ours when visiting (he had never had a telephone, if
wanted at the dock they would have sent a messenger) and found it of
interest and indeed I read a French one when on holiday (instructions on
renewing identity cards and upteen alphabetic sections, one per commune).

And there are libraries (and book pushers as on this list) to add to the
readers but not the sales.

And _Bird Biology for Beginners_ which I had for several years before
opening.

Little Egret