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The Portable Reader
Field note 04
Data / insight
XLVI
A change in scale · reading habits ledger
Small books travel
farther.
When the page leaves the desk, the reading hour becomes a place of its own.
Where the portable edition is opened
Share of readers · percent
0
20
40
60
80
A portable reading is not bound to a room
18%
32%
44%
62%
70%
desk
salon
train
street
bedside
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