Reading Rarely A Pleasure

Sunday 26th May

Posted at 12:59PM Thursday 14 Feb 2013

One in four UK adults rarely pick up a book to read for pleasure, according to a poll.

It reveals that 25% of people have picked up a book only once or less in the past six months.

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