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The pleasures of reading the printed page

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Do you read physical books? A recent Pew Research Center survey found that roughly two-thirds of Americans report reading all or part of a physical book in the last 12 months.

Host Scott Tong mulls over that stat with Traci Thomas, host and creator of “The Stacks” podcast.

This article was originally published on WBUR.org.

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