Inbalance

I took at look at statistics for the Library of Congress and they have something like thirty-five or thirty-eight million books - I forget the exact number. Now World Wide there are over seven billion people and something like three hundred million in North America. However English is not a first language in much of the world so at a guess, I'd estimate the number of individuals who might read for pleasure to be maybe four to five hundred million. Now these days with television, smart phones, computers, movies and things like Netflix, I think there are probably a small percentage of people who read for pleasure, so, it is quite possible that we've passed the mark where there are now more books than readers.