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A record 62.6 percent of respondents reported not reading a single book per month, making up the majority for the first time, a national language survey by the Cultural Affairs Agency showed Tuesday. The all-time high figure in a survey asking people how many books they read a month, including e-books but not magazines and comics, marks a 15.3 percentage point increase from the last survey conducted in fiscal 2018. But the poll also found that 75.3 percent of those who do not read books regularly still obtain information from other sources, such as social media posts and online articles, “almo…

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