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Show read the Eible but discouraging I is the observation that a largi percentage read only a few vers es in church on Sunday or repor 1 that they read it sometime ii their life, i Ey comparison, the survey re j veals that eighty-four per cen' j read "Forever Amber," one o: J the lurid sex novels of the recenl past. If this figure is correct anc what we hear of the book is ar accurate report, the survey indicates indi-cates that considerably more time was given to the studv of the Survey Shows Which Books Are Being Read j A scientific and exhaustive ! nation-wide survey of the taste of the American reading public during dur-ing the first six months of last year has been made by the Book Manufacturers Institute and the results are extremely interesting. Encouraging is the report that ninety-five per cent of the people amours of the heroine than to the study of the great truths of the Bible. The survey reports that adventure adven-ture books are the most popular, with other favorites being war books, social problems, history, religion, mystery, humor and, last, poetry. As to age groups, the evidence evi-dence indicates that youths between be-tween fifteen and nineteen read more than any other group and that interest in reading declines as people grow older, reaching a I low at the age of sixty. Women, it is pointed out, are more avid readers than men. Why and how people read is also discussed, with the survey reporting fifty-eight per cent reading read-ing at home, sitting quietly and smoking, twelve per cent lying in bed, seven tier cent listening to the radio and four per cent at j work. |