The annual book sale and crimes against literature by Elna Nykänen Andersson in The Monocle, February 25, 2010.
Swedes are big readers. In this country of nine million people, 58 million books were borrowed from libraries in 2008. More than 40 million books were sold in the same year. Books are on offer everywhere from supermarkets to gas stations and 83 per cent of Swedes have read one in the past 12 months. As book reading is generally regarded as an admirable pastime, there should be no reason to worry over the Swedes’ cultural habits.
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