As reflected in a note by the Télam agency, a survey revealed that reading grew more than one 45 percent in our country during social and compulsory isolation.

These numbers are the result of a survey that was carried out from the 20 March until the first of the current month of August.

El número total de incremento es del 45,7 percent, where respondents acknowledged having adopted a little more the habit of reading. At the same time, The 66,2 por ciento de esa totalidad afirmó haber recobrado “costumbres de lectura que habían abandonado por falta de tiempo”, as a 21,4 He stated that the desire to distract the mind and relax fears led him to immerse himself for much longer in reading and, by last, the 12,4 % remaining, noted that he started reading to combat boredom.

Those in charge of carrying out this survey were those responsible for the Ghostwriter Argentina firm, who published this result on a total of 7834 effective cases, in the area of ​​the City of Buenos Aires, Gran Buenos Aires, Mar del Plata, Rosario, Santa Fe, Córdoba, Mendoza, Neuquén and Santa Cruz, through quantitative research and based on a structured questionnaire that was channeled into a telephone survey (IVR) on resident citizens, men and women between 18 Y 65 years, en condiciones de “pero sin actividades laborales ni profesionales inherentes a la lectoescritura”.

According to the survey, the 43,2 % expressed that he took up some literary work, the 28,6 % said to have accessed new titles by national and international authors through online purchases of physical books and, the 28,2 % indicated that he turned a lot to reading through the different platforms and formats of digital books.

On the other hand, the report indicates the growth in the sale of ebooks and subscriptions to online libraries. But nevertheless, the Argentine number (44,3 %) was too far removed from European cases.

In this context, Spain, for example, had a user upload on the eBiblio platform (the public library electronic book loan service organized by the Spanish government) of 120 percent.

Among the most sought-after literary genres, the best sellers of fiction, famous autobiographies, horror novels and self-help books, se disputan la cima de quienes piensan que “no abandonarán el circuito literario”, once the quarantine is over.