Apparently the American Publishers Association conducted a poll that said liberals read more than conservatives? Since it is headed by Pat Schroder, previous Democrat in the House I may be suspicious of the objectivuty of the poll, but it found that liberals read 9 books per year and conservatives read only 8 books a year.
One in four Americans read no books at all. I wonder how many of them are liberal and conservative?
Inernet reading apparently is excluded. I read about 30 books a year but probably the equivalent of another 5 on the internet.
Schroder of course pontificated that this worthless poll meant that conservatives are closed minded and get their information from bumper stickers.
What I would surmise is that people are really too diverse to split into just two categories.
Wouldn;t it be as important to know WHAT people are reading instead of just how much? Seems a dumb poll to me. I do remember the great Tattered Cover Book Store in Denver had a histogram showing what books liberals and conservatives read. It basically showed that there were precious few books read both by people who self-identified as liberal and those who self-identified as conservative.