Survey: 73 percent of Czechs read at least one book a year

Some 73 percent of Czechs read at least one printed or electronic book per year, according to new research by the National Library and the Institute for Czech Literature of the Czech Academy of Sciences presented on Thursday. That figure is the lowest since 2007, when the survey was carried out for the first time.

The results of the research also show that every Czech over the age of 15 reads 9.9 books a year on average, spending 33 minutes a day reading. Women read on average 12.8 books, while men only about half of that amount. According to the survey, some 28 percent of Czechs go to the library at least once a year, compared to 40 percent in 2007.