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38 percent of adults used a handheld or mobile device to access art. Types of art may have included:
Music of any kind (34 percent of adults)
Novels, short stories, or plays (16 percent)
Visual artworks such as painting, sculpture, graphic design,or photography (8 percent)
- Theater or dance performances (3 percent)
The uptick in literary reading rates that occurred between 2002 and 2008 has been reversed. In 2012, fewer than half of all U.S. adults (46.9 percent, or 110.2 million) read a novel, short story, poem, or play. Meanwhile, the share of adults who read any book whatsoever has remained constant. Since 2002, the share of poetry-readers has contracted by 45 percent—resulting in the steepest decline in participation in any literary genre. Sixty-five to 74-year-olds now are among those with the highest rates of literary reading. Moreover, adults 65 and older saw a significant a significant increase in bookreading of any type.
The rate of adults reading novels or short stories is back down to the 2002 level. From 2002 to 2012, the poetry-reading rate nearly halved.
4.1 percent of adults attended a literary reading or storytelling event in 2012.
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