People in Seattle read SO MUCH that you can never find the library book you want. You have to reserve them and then you can go to this HOLD shelf and grab your book when it comes in. My book had 322 holds on it and it took me 7 years on the wait list before I got it. Just kidding. Why does Seattle read so much? America’s Most Literate Cities, 2006
Drawing from a variety of available data resources, the America’s Most Literate Cities study ranks the 70 largest cities (population 250,000 and above) in the United States. This study focuses on six key indicators of literacy: newspaper circulation, number of bookstores, library resources, periodical publishing resources, educational attainment, and Internet resources.
The original study was published online in 2003 at the University of Wisconsin-Whitewater. A link to the 2004 rankings is provided here. The 2005 rankings were published online at Central Connecticut State University and are accessible here.
City | Overall Rank 06 | 05 Rank |
| Seattle, WA | 1 | 1 |
| Minneapolis, MN | 2 | 2 |
| Atlanta, GA | 3.5 | 4 |
| Washington, DC | 3.5 | 3 |
| St. Paul, MN | 5 | 9.5 |
| Pittsburgh, PA | 6 | 8 |
| Cincinnati, OH | 7 | 9.5 |
| Denver, CO | 8 | 6 |
| San Francisco, CA | 9 | 5 |
| Portland, OR | 10 | 11 |
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