BOOKS are always a topic of conversation for me: I spent part of the afternoon catching up with graduates who love to read and one who has written a novel of his own.  I didn’t like them much as a child, but books are a big part of life today.

The Pew Research Center just released information on “the rise of e-readers” and the reading habits of contemporary Americans.  Interesting: while 20% of Americans have supposedly read a book on an e-reader in the last year, 19% of adults didn’t read one book in any form in the last year.  If it weren’t for books like The Hunger Games, I’m not sure what books my current students would read that weren’t academic.  You can check out the USA Today article here and an important part of the actual study (charts and all) here.

A guest-poster to Donald Miller’s site also had something to say about books: mainly about what book-reading does for those who seek to do things meaningful and culture-changing.  Justin Zoradi uses a survey by the Jenkins Group to point out four kinds of people empowered by reading: readers, travelers, empathizers, and innovators.  I suppose the first should be a no-brainer, but the remaining three are quite interesting to think on more.  You can check out the rest of his thoughts here.

Anybody reading anything good these days?