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?
This study is a little out of date, but at some point the numbers were that -on average- people read 12 books per year but that number is skewed heavily by those 100+ people (spiders Georg), while the median number of books read per year is 4.
https://www.pewresearch.org/internet/2016/09/01/book-reading-2016/
Who is spiders George?
It’s a tumblr post:-
Yea that number is such obvious bullshit.
you can read the online serial Worm in a couple of weeks(or less!), that is equivalent to 26 novel length books. It is really easy to read 100+ books in a year.