About Our Book-Collecting Habits

This item comes from The Literary Saloon:

At YouGov David Montgomery reports on their latest survey, determining “How many books Americans own—and how they organize them.” (Yes, we’re apparently at the stage where we no longer ask whether anyone still reads books, but rather simply whether they own any …)

Good to know that 85 per cent of Americans admit to owning at least one book (though I’m really curious about the 6 per cent who answered that they're not sure whether they own any …). Still, 25 per cent responded that they own 100 or more books.

They also ask how Americans organize their collections—and I am … impressed ? that one in five responders organize their books by size. Good for all those who opted for the most popular answer: “I don’t organize my books.”

Despite early fears that electronic books would destroy the market for their print cousins, this study found that not to be the case. “Only around half of Americans say they own even one e-book,” the report says, “and only 9% of Americans say they own at least 100 e-books.”