Read any good books lately?

After polling 10 people I found the following results pertaining to books.

Avg number of books read in the last 6 months - 4.5

Types of books read - Religious books, novels, programming language books, and textbooks.

This tells me that my sample do read a lot per se, but that they do read a fair amount. All of them mentioned reading religious books as well as textbooks. This would suggest that they are religious students, which is true.


In college, I would rather use electronic text books. This makes these books accessible anywhere and is significantly less expensive. The only reason why I would want to use hard copy books is so I can highlight things, but you can print off those books and highlight the pages. I'm taking a Public Speaking class that is using an electronic text, so I just printed off the pages and it serves just as good as a hard copy at a fraction of the price.

As far as leisure reading goes, I would prefer hard copy. There is something to be said about having a hard copy book, sitting down and just enjoying a good story. Also, it gets annoying staring at a screen to read, especially considering how much time I spend doing other things on a computer. One example for me is that I like to read millionaire kind of business books and I would not enjoy kicking back and reading one on the internet as I would reading through a hard copy book.