New Study Ranks Vermont as State with Highest Interest in Reading
A new study commissioned by Typing.com analyzed each state based on a range of factors including number of libraries and library visits per capita, Google search volumes for Kindles, and the number of bookstores, to reveal the state with the highest “Reading Interest Score.”
Vermont topped the charts with a “Reading Interest Score” of 37.24. The state has the highest library availability, with a library per 3,819 people thanks to a total of 164 libraries. Residents make the country’s second-highest number of annual library visits, recording 5.89 visits per capita, while the state’s level of searches for “Kindle” are also higher. There are four bookstores for every hundred thousand people in the state, also the second-highest in America.
Wyoming and Maine came in second and third, respectively. Florida ranked at the bottom.
