id	author	title	date	pages	extension	mime	words	sentence	flesch	summary	cache	txt
crl-10249	Bryan,, Alice I.	People and Books: A Study of Reading and Book-Buying Habits (Book Review)	1946-09-30	2	.pdf	application/pdf	1459	67	63	167P. In the fall of 1944 it was anybody's guess whether the boom in book buying would con- tinue after the war, decline gradually, or collapse. Faced with shortages of material and personnel and with the prospect of heavily rising costs, the book industry, in order to protect its heavy investment in plants and organization, needed facts about book reading and book buying upon which to base accurate estimates of future market trends.	cache/crl-10249.pdf	txt/crl-10249.txt