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This statistic shows the results of a survey conducted in the United Kingdom in 2017 on reasons for reading. Some 98 percent of respondents stated that they read for pleasure.
The Survey Data Table for the Statista survey on e-books in the United Kingdom 2017 contains the complete tables for the survey including various column headings.

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Number of respondents

1,002 respondents

Age group

18 years and older

Special properties

residential population, who reads in their free time and spent money on a book within the last 12 months

Supplementary notes

Multiple answers were possible.

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