Does anyone actually care about what city is the most literate in the US, a country in which the vast majority of books sold or borrowed from libraries exist only to keep fat people on couches from feeling a vague shame when watching other fat people on daytime television?
Of course, when you measure literacy by consumption of books-as-objects (or is that media loci as objects?) instead of understanding of literature, I suppose that the view that Oprah is the best thing to happen to literature since Skikibu (who?) seems more reasonable.
How about we rank cities by how many random people on the street can correctly pronounce Mahabharata… seems just as relevant, if not maybe a bit more so.
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