Was das Volk liest (1892)

An obscure article is reprinted here, which analyzes the circulation of books in public libraries in order to talk about the popularity of literature on this quantitative basis. »What the People Read« by Eduard Reyer appears on a sunday, september 11, 1892, in the Allgemeine Deutsche Lehrzeitung. The essay is republished by Michael Multhammer and Niels Werber. They are discussing Reyer’s essay in their article for this issue of the LiLi »No Popularization without Depopularization. An Analysis of Eduard Reyer’s Program for Public Libraries«.