WHEN YOU THINK LITERACY...
(Thanks to Rick Day, and Phil Boyum, who says, "But apparently they can't read the driver's manual.")
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May 18, 2012
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Only due to all the retirees. Someday Florida will sink under the weight of all those James Patterson novels.
Posted by: padraig | May 18, 2012 at 10:20 AM
Woohoo, DC suburbs. Of course the rest of the story is that the most consumed genre was trashy romance novels. Not quite as smart as they look.
Posted by: Loudmouth | May 18, 2012 at 10:50 AM
Miami? Seriously?
I guess people in New York still shop in real bookstores.
Posted by: Jeff Meyerson | May 18, 2012 at 11:10 AM
Does this blog count as "Reading" ?
Posted by: LeDud | May 18, 2012 at 11:22 AM
Washington...#9...? Absurd. They don't even read the legislation they pass.
Posted by: Clankie | May 18, 2012 at 12:19 PM
This "study" is flawed from the start ... it considers only "cities over 100,000 population" ...
If that's the case, Fargo would be the most literate large town in Nodak ... since it's the ONLY one with over 100K people ...
Further errors in the premise would include the fact that probably a half-million "book shoppers" will visit the B&N store in Fargo in any calendar year ... and they hail frum as much as 300-400 miles away frum that "metropolis on the prairie" ...
Besides which already, while a lot of Fargo (or other cities') folks may actually read a lot, they don't necessarily excel in "reading for COMPREHENSION" ... merely sayin' that there's dummies everywhere, who can read, yet fail to grasp fundamental concepts of logic, usage, spelling, and other tools of the "educated/intelligent" person ...
Posted by: O the Umanity | May 18, 2012 at 01:16 PM
Whaddya know ? And I thought Detroit was the most littered cyty.
Posted by: Soloview | May 18, 2012 at 05:58 PM