“The Ultimate Guide to Global Reading Habits” says the people of India read more hours per week than the people of any other nation in the world

On many days, the largest number of visitors here comes from India, and I have been curious to know why. The Indian-American psychiatrists I have known were not unusually interested in multiple personality. And I am not aware of any great interest in multiple personality in India.

But I just came upon the fact that the people of India spend more hours per week reading than the people of any other nation in the world (1). That fact, together with India’s large population, must be part of the reason for the large number of visits from India. I hope the reason is not just statistical.

On another note, as I’ve commented previously, I have always been puzzled by the very few visits here from the UK, considering that so many of the writers I have discussed have been from there. But recently, I have been pleased to see some regular visits from the UK. Indeed, in the last 24 hours, the most visited post—perhaps visited from the UK, but I have no way of knowing for sure—has been a 2017 post from my series on The Lord of the Rings by J. R. R. Tolkien.

“The Ultimate Guide to Global Reading Habits” (1) is from the website of a commercial firm with which I am not familiar, but the information they compiled on reading habits might interest some readers here.

1. Global English Editing. “The Ultimate Guide to Global Reading Habits.” https://geediting.com/world-reading-habits/