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Jun 4, 2019 · 1. Reading could help you live longer. People who read books live for around two years longer than those who don’t, irrespective of gender, wealth, education or health, according to a Yale University study. While a similar association was found among readers of newspapers, it was weaker.
Jan 11, 2022 · More adults are reading digital books in the US. There has been an uptick in the share of Americans who report reading e-books, from 25% to 30%, despite print book and audiobook consumers staying the same. Demographic differences also impact book reading of adults in the US. 33% of American adults read both digital books and print books, while ...
Oct 12, 2016 · The other benefits. The researchers found that people who read books showed stronger cognitive abilities, such as recall and counting backwards. However, reading magazines or newspapers didn’t have the same effect unless readers spent more than seven hours on the activity each week. This was associated with an 11% reduction in mortality.
May 11, 2018 · Image: Statista. A survey of people aged from 20 to 74 in 15 EU countries between 2008 to 2015 found that the average time spent reading books ranges from two minutes a day in France to 13 minutes in Estonia. In 2016, households in the EU spent over €90 billion ($107 billion) or 1.1% of their total expenditure on books, newspapers and ...
Jul 27, 2017 · Image: WSJ. Here's how some of their peers incorporate reading into their own lives. Warren Buffett. The Berkshire Hathaway magnate reportedly spends five to six hours a day reading five different newspapers. He also combs through 500 pages of financial documents and recommends prospective investors do the same.
Feb 13, 2020 · Books by the world's most original writers were picked by UNESCO's Cities of Literature to align to the UN’s blueprint for a better future. These fiction and non-fiction works help readers better understand sustainable development goals such as climate change, poverty and education.
Jul 18, 2023 · Pupils in the UK and Ireland read 27,265,657 books in the academic year that ended in July 2022, an increase of 24% compared with the previous year. Reading role models are now as likely to be found on platforms like BookTok as they are in school or the community at large, a new report suggests. The World Economic Forum's Book Club features a ...
Jun 25, 2016 · These four books, recommended by experts with a deep knowledge of the country and a mix of fiction and non-fiction, will get you started. Country Driving. Peter Hessler. Peter Hessler, an American journalist, spent many years living in China, first as an English teacher and then as a correspondent for the New Yorker.
Jun 10, 2021 · The first book Obama recommends is The Overstory by Richard Powers, which was published in 2018 and won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction a year later. According to the publishers, Penguin Vintage, Margaret Atwood once said: “It's not possible for Powers to write an uninteresting book.”. “It’s about trees and the relationship of humans to ...
May 26, 2021 · Sales of fiction books in the UK in 2020 grew by 16% to more than $970 million – even when bookshops were closed for months of the year, according to figures from the Publishers Association. “It’s clear that many people rediscovered their love of reading last year,” said Stephen Lotinga, Chief Executive of the Publishers Association ...
