>According to the most recent American time use survey results
>("American Time Use Survey -- 2004 Results Announced by BLS,"
>September 20, 2005, <http://www.bls.gov/news.release/pdf/atus.pdf>),
>men spend 0.30 hour, and women 0.42 hour, per weekday (and men spend
>0.37 hour and women 0.49 hour per weekend) on reading in the United
>States. That's about 2.24 hours per week for men and 3.06 hours per
>week for women.
>
>If an average male American worker and an average female American
>worker devoted all their reading time to reading nothing but Capital
>-- a tough regimen! -- it would take the male worker about 17 weeks
>and the female worker 12 weeks to finish reading the three volumes
>of it.
>
>If Capital is on few American workers' reading list, the chief
>reason may be its length rather than difficulty, or rather American
>workers' inability to win leisure.
Hey, they could turn off the TV now & then. Americans spend about seven times as much in front of the TV as they do reading, over 18 hours a week.
Doug