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1. One out of every eight letters you read is the letter ‘e’. 2. In 1939 an author named Ernest Vincent wrote a 50,000 word novel called Gadsby. The only thing unusual about the novel is that there is not a single letter ‘e’ in the whole thing. 3. There have been over 20,000 books written...

1. In a 2012 survey, almost a fifth of children said they would be “embarrassed” if a friend saw them with a book…. Flickr: 75483054@N00 2. …and 54% of those questioned said they preferred watching TV to reading. Flickr: 79826737@N00 Here’s the study from the National Literary Trust...