This timeline presents book readership in the United States from 2002 to 2012. In 2010, 35 percent of respondents stated they read a book the day before.
The source does not provide any figure for 2008. The original question posed by the source was: "Not including school or work related books, did you spend any time reading a book yesterday?"
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Pew Research Center. (September 27, 2012). Did you read a book yesterday? [Graph]. In Statista. Retrieved February 08, 2025, from https://www.statista.com/statistics/243962/book-readership-in-the-us/?__sso_cookie_checker=failed
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