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Youngsters in search of sound of music online
China had 210 million netizens at the end of December last year. But the number of netizens - or those who use the Internet more than an hour a week - is likely to surpass the 215 million mark, held by Americans, sometime this year, said a China Internet Network Information Center report. — China Daily

Study finds fewer people reading books, library sees no change
Americans spent 2.6 hours watching TV and 22 minutes reading in their daily leisure time, according to a 2006 American Time Use Survey from the Bureau of Labor Statistics. Teens and young adults spent even less time — just seven minutes — reading while they spent almost two hours a day watching TV. Those are just a few of the findings released by the National Endowment of the Arts’ “To Read or Not To Read: A Question of National Consequence” analysis that looks at reading patterns in the U.S. — Gaston Gazette