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Reading not quite dead yet

That’s the message of a report from the Hamilton, Ontario arts research firm Hill Strategies, based on StatsCan data from 2005. As The Globe and Mail reports, 66% of Canadians reported having read at least one book in a 12-month period, narrowly edging out the 61% that reported going out to the movies at least once over the course of a year. (Not mentioned: percentage of those books that had the words “Da Vinci” or “Code” in the title.) Some might assume that “at least one” is in fact very close to “one” for many of those book-reading Canadians, but take heart: according to the Globe story, four in 10 Canadians claim to read at least one book per month, not just per year.

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March 29th, 2007

9:07 am

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