<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/8a81a4fd-5d93-4aca-ad9f-a8fb50f8be00/AAC08AF6-D118-42D6-9E65-20F28E77F56F/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://www.readforpleasure.com/2007/01/how-much-do-we-read.html" href="http://www.readforpleasure.com/2007/01/how-much-do-we-read.html" style="font-size: 11px;">www.readforpleasure.com</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.readforpleasure.com/2007/01/how-much-do-we-read.html"><H3>How many books</H3></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.readforpleasure.com/2007/01/how-much-do-we-read.html"><DIV>A 2004 Gallup poll found that the average American, Canadian, or British adult woman read at least one book per month. Quite a few people don't read books at all.</DIV></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.readforpleasure.com/2007/01/how-much-do-we-read.html"><div align="center"><img src="http://content7.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/www.readforpleasure.com/img/7583B2A0-3B09-4DD6-8523-72F703EB2F0E" alt="" /></div></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.readforpleasure.com/2007/01/how-much-do-we-read.html"><div align="center"><img src="http://content8.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/www.readforpleasure.com/img/8BB4795D-813F-4DD2-84B4-57A40B82E6A7" alt="" /></div></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; 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