According to Amazon.com, the residents of Cambridge, Massachusetts read more books than residents in any other city in the United States.
Amazon looked at book orders so far this year in cities with more than 100,000 residents... and the home to Harvard and M.I.T. came out on top. Overall, college towns did the best.
The top 10 cities in per-capita book sales are:
1. Cambridge, Massachusetts
2. Alexandria, Virginia
3. Berkeley, California
4. Ann Arbor, Michigan
5. Boulder, Colorado
6. Miami, Florida
7. Salt Lake City, Utah
8. Gainesville, Florida
9. Seattle, Washington
10. Arlington, Virginia
Amazon also crunched numbers for several specific categories. Cambridge was tops for non-fiction reading. Boulder, Colorado lead the pack in cookbook sales and Alexandria, Virginia is where children's books are the hottest buy.
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