Reading Facts

None of the Beatles knew how to read music. (Paul McCartney eventually taught himself.)

Women who are romance novel readers are reported to make love 74% more often with their partners than women who do not read romance novels.

Women who read romance novels have sex twice as often as those who don't.

It would take 76 work days (8 hours a day) for the average person to read the Terms and Conditions they agree to in a year.

Researchers have found that reading reduces stress by 68%, more than listening to music or taking a walk.

In Brazil, prison inmates can reduce their sentence by 4 days (up to 48 days a year) for every book they read and write a report on.

Theodore Roosevelt read at least one book every day.

Those little boxes of books on posts across America started as one man's tribute. Todd Bol built the first in 2009, from wood off his old garage door. He shaped it like a tiny schoolhouse, for his mother, June. She was a schoolteacher who tutored neighborhood kids at her dining table. He filled it with books and staked it in his yard. Neighbors wanted their own. There are now over 200,000, in 128 countries. There's probably one on your street.

When Serendipity Books in Chelsea, Michigan needed to move to a new storefront, owner Michelle Tuplin asked the town for help. On April 13, 2025, around 300 residents showed up and formed two human chains down Main Street, passing all 9,100 books by hand to the new location. Ages 6 to 91, all in one line.