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by kornhole 1118 days ago
If what you heard is true, close to half of people read no books.
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This, plus: reading one book in a year can absolutely be done in less than 5 minutes of reading a day. I've seen books written exactly for this consumption pattern: very short, 1-3 page long chapters, with half being a recap of relevant chapters that came before.

Not to mention, "at least 1 book a year" is so peculiar a cut-off point that it sounds like it's deliberately constructed to obscure something. For example (possibly, I'm just guessing), the fact that choosing "at least 10 books a year" would see it going from "more than half" to "less than 5%"...

At least one whole book doesn't mean no reading otherwise, everyone could read part of a book and the statement isn't untrue.