As you know, I enjoy a long love affair with science. I particularly like scientific discoveries that have some connection to our everyday life, allowing us to extrapolate into other areas.
I recently ran into a post on the Daily Mail describing a clever research by a professor of mathematics: he checked which ebook sentences readers were highlighting on their Kindle. His assumption was that the if a reader had highlighted 2 sentences at the beginning and none after that, he/she had not read the book. If sentences towards the end were underlined, then it probably meant that the reader had read the whole book. Although it is not exactly hard science, it does give some pointers as to what people actually read and whether they finish their books.
Here are his findings:
A couple of items that sprung to my attention: the least read book was Hilary Clinton’s “Hard Choices” (only 1.9%…
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