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the color coding for the amount of books is the wrong way around. The classification with the lowest percentage should also come first on the x-axis. Right now you have to mentally subtract to get the percentages for people that read 10 books.
The figure published by Eurostat:
All right then, Germany, keep your secrets.
While with the internet at arm’s reach I may not read books as I did before, not even in the past twelve months, I am using that same “mental quality time” to view long videos explaining concepts in relativity and quantum physics, the history of science and of art, ancient cultures and civilizations, the origins of the languages we speak today, how Cuneiform was used in the Bronze Age…
The scope of information - and quality presentation of said information - at our disposal today is mind-boggling, nothing short of astonishing when you start scratching even just YouTube.
Pbs spacetime is absolutely fantastic if you truly want to dive into the physics hole without too much of the math
I’m calling BS on those numbers.
Idk where Eurostat gets It’s info from but I assume that if you go on the street and ask people about reading books, they’ll lie.
70% reading several books, as in from start to finish, not just “read a few pages”, in the past 12 months?
Either it’s bullshit or the sampling is super biased. I’d believe those numbers of certain parts of the population, but in total? Nah.
I’d like to see how the data would’ve been affected if the interviewers had also tested that the people know what books they read and roughly what happened in them.
Pretty sure they count audiobooks and comics in
Oh well then, yeah, I can see that.
Good point
A “0 books” category would make this a lot more telling, unless “Less than 5” explicitly means 1-4
*Reading habits in the European Union.
Last I checked the UK was still part of Europe!
Can’t really be for the EU, either, as it includes Norway and excludes Germany. Not exactly what I’d call beautiful data.
Weird it has an EU average. That’s what threw me.
Now I’m even more annoyed at this graph.
This graph comes from Eurostat. It’s funded by the EU, but all European countries can participate. That’s why Norway and Switzerland are in the graph, even though they are out of the EU.
The UK just doesn’t care being European, apparently.
Where Germany?
We’ve read all the books already because we’re so efficient.
Germany doesn’t exist.
Well, shit. Where the fuck have I been living all this time?
In Nürnberg
Those are sad numbers. Should be 100%.
For those of us who don’t read, what do you feel that we’re missing out on?
On one hand I get your point, but on another if you spend most of your time learning (but through other formats than books: through quality online articles or videos, and not eBooks) then it does not seem so bad to me.
I am reading nearly 24/7 but I complete a full actual book maybe once a year. Might be bigger if you count the books that have also (legally) been wholly posted online, but I often forget them because I read them just like an extra-long article: on my phone. I read peoples’ original fiction that they post online so I’m not sure whether to count it or not.
I like longer articles but I do admit that I consume so much less long-form content than I did as a child. At least I avoid TikTok and Reels and the like? (Not to be elitist, but because I know I specifically would get addicted and waste my life. Very bad for my particular ADHD brain.) Also something something possible link between lower attention spans and only consuming short-form content. So I get the general gist of your idea and agree even if I do not particularly agree with the emphasis on the medium of books.
