London: It's a survey which could well trigger an argument at the breakfast table -- women are more avid readers of books than men.

 According to the British survey, women know how to read properly, while men have a desultory and, at best, casual approach to books -- in fact, the fair sex cannot put a book down once they begin it.

Men, on the other hand, are much less likely to keep up this sort of pace. Twice as many men as women admitted that they never finish a book. The survey of 2,000 people found different types of readers. Forty-eight per cent of women can be considered to be Page Turners, or avid readers, compared with only 26 per cent of men, The Guardian reported.

Slow Worms are those who spend a long time reading but who take their books very seriously and finish them. They can often manage only one or two books a year. This group was madeup by 32 per cent of male respondents and 18 per cent women.

Serial Shelvers have shelves full of books that have never been opened and are not likely to be -- 17 per cent of women and 20 per cent of men fall into this category. The only similarities between the sexes came among those who have two books on the bed table at once and who start one book on the middle of reading another, switching
easily -- 12 per cent of women were in this category, exactly the same number as men.

A similar survey carried out in December found half of men and one third of woman have lied about what they have read to try and impress friends.

 

 

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