Scary statistics about book reading

I stumbled on Rich Burridge's weblog post about book statistics, it has some scary numbers :

Who is Reading Books (and who is not)
One-third of high school graduates never read another book for the rest of their lives. Many do not even graduate from high school.

58% of the US adult population never reads another book after high school.
42% of college graduates never read another book.
80% of US families did not buy or read a book last year.
70% of US adults have not been in a bookstore in the last five years.
57% of new books are not read to completion.

58% and 42% ?!?!? how is that possible !

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ILoad products: IPod without a PC

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A friend sent me a link to the Iload products, it sounds very cool, there are three model :

  • ILoad allows you to load CDs directly on the IPod without a PC
  • ILoad-v connect to a cable or satellite box and allow you to record video shows directly on the Ipod, or an USB hard drive. It is integrate with a TV guide to select programs to record.
  • Iload-c integrate a Cell Phone to directly load music from a music store into your Ipod Nano.

The prices seem reasonable: $199 for the Iload-v for example.

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Brainiac playing in the US

You might have seen this show in UK, or in the Google videos , like this one :

I found recently that the G4 channel Cool ... explosions, and silly experiments ...

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