A new poll done for The Associated Press reports on the bookreading habits of Americans. I fear a poll of Canadians might produce a similarly dismal result:

A quarter of US adults say they read no books at all in the past year, according to an Associated Press-Ipsos poll. The typical person claimed to have read four books in the last year and, excluding those who had not read any books at all, the usual number of books read was seven.
Of those who did read, women and pensioners were most avid readers, and religious works and popular fiction were the top choices.