How many books have you started in the past year?
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One or two, not including textbooks:
11%
Three to six:
24%
Seven to ten:
15%
Eleven to fifteen:
12%
Sixteen to twenty:
7%
Twenty-one to thirty:
10%
More than thirty:
18%
None:
3%
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How many books have you finished in the past year?
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One or two, not including textbooks:
12%
Three to six:
24%
Seven to ten:
15%
Eleven to fifteen:
9%
Sixteen to twenty:
7%
Twenty-one to thirty:
10%
More than thirty:
15%
None:
7%
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From which of the following categories are you most likely to find a book that you will finish?
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Popular fiction:
33%
Classical literature:
7%
Biographies:
9%
Histories:
18%
Business:
3%
Mysteries:
18%
Travel:
2%
Romances:
2%
Poetry:
0%
Politics:
5%
The Bible or other religious works:
3%
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Which of the following is the most likely reason you don't finish a book?
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I lose interest:
50%
I misplace the book:
2%
I run out of time:
16%
I don't want the story to end:
1%
I always finish my books:
31%
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Do you judge books by their covers?
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Always or almost always:
4%
Sometimes:
46%
Hardly ever or never:
42%
If the question is metaphorical, then yes:
8%
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Do you think you read more books or fewer books than most (other) St. Louisans?
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More:
55%
Fewer:
19%
About the same:
25%
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Do you think St. Louisans in general read more books or fewer books than the national average?
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More:
20%
Fewer:
23%
About the same:
57%
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Which of the following groups do you think read more books?
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Conservatives:
29%
Liberals:
71%
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Which of the following groups do you think read more books?
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Democrats:
68%
Republicans:
32%
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To which of the following do you most attribute a national drop in reading books?
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Television:
42%
Movies:
0%
The Internet:
44%
Something else:
14%
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Will you give a book as a gift this holiday season?
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Have you been to a bookstore in the past year?
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Have you been to a Left Bank Books bookstore?
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Yes, to the store in the Central West End:
71%
Yes, to the store downtown:
3%
Yes, to both of them:
7%
No, not yet but I plan to:
18%
No:
0%
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Have you ever ordered a book from an online retailer, like Amazon.com, in the last month?
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Which of the following new books by St. Louisans would be most likely to end up at the top of your reading list? |
"The Jefferson Bank Confrontation: The Struggle for Civil Rights in St. Louis" by William L. Clay, Sr.:
12%
"Mobs, Mayhem & Murder" by Tim O'Neil:
30%
"Gunn Sights: Taking Aim on Selling in the High-Stakes Industry of International Aerospace" by Tom Gunn:
4%
"Flash Frames" by Don Marsh:
4%
"Beer Bubbles & Bucks," by Lou Dersch:
9%
"Alfred Kazin: A Biography" by Richard M. Cook:
2%
"Movers and Shakers, Scalawags and Suffragettes: Tales from Bellefontaine Cemetery, 1849-2006" by Carol Ferring Shepley:
39%
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Would you be willing to re-read and discuss "To Kill a Mockingbird" as part of the St. Louis Big Read project? |
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Lifestyle: hardback, paperback, or e-book? |
I'm a hardback:
48%
I'm a paperback:
49%
I'm an e-book:
3%
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Partisan stocking stuffer at your house? |
"Faith of My Fathers: A Family Memoir" by John McCain:
26%
"Dreams from My Father: A Story of Race and Inheritance" by Barack Obama:
74%
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Book borrower or book lender, mostly? |
Borrower:
40%
Lender:
60%
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