The power of books

  • There are more than 100,000 books published a year in the UK.
  • Sixty pages an hour is the average reading speed.
  • A quarter of people in the UK haven’t read a single book in the past year.

These are three facts which I have extracted from this article.
I love reading books (as I have explained here), but I have so much other reading to do as part of my work and I am a slow and conscientious reader. So I aim to read a book a month. I’ve managed to review almost 150 on my web site here.
Do you read books? How many?

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