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The Czech Republic boasts one of the densest library networks in Europe. But who exactly uses these libraries, and what do their reading habits look like? Drawing on data from roughly 17 million loans made over three years at Prague’s Municipal Library, data journalist Michal Kašpárek uncovered a number of intriguing patterns. At what age do men and women read the same books? Who are the library’s ‘super-users’? And how do readers’ interests change over the course of a year? Ruth Fraňková spoke to Kašpárek about what the data revealed.
Of all the patterns hidden in the data, was there anything that really took you by surprise?.
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Author: Ruth Fraňková