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‘In 2000 I completed a study of the reading tastes and practices of adult readers of fiction. The study proposed that four key social factors play a fundamental role in shaping reading practices: age, gender , tertiary education and occupation status...’(Introduction 368)
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Epigraph : I once stopped at a garage sale and saw a few meagre magazines on display. I politely told the woman who owned the house that I'd hoped to find some books, and she led me to a side room. It was crammed with books from floor to ceiling. I bought the books and I also bought an understanding of the man who owned.the books. Through his books I followed his youthful interest in ships and sails, his training in the RAAF in World War II and his enthusiasm for photography. I found books he'd received as a child, and the books he planned to use to traverse the globe single-handed in the yacht which was finally to fail. I saw his life through that set of books...(Rob Scott, 1998)
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Case-study : Romancing the Reader
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