A format flexible library
Choose how the book meets you.
Paper, electronic books, and audio each create a different doorway into attention. The strongest format is the one that helps you return, remain present, and carry the reading into life.
Current national reach
Print remains the broadest path.
These percentages describe the share of all United States adults who used each format during the preceding twelve months. A reader may appear in several categories, so the format percentages overlap.
Source: Pew Research Center survey of U.S. adults, October 6–16, 2025. The categories overlap and therefore should not be added together.
Primary reading method
When readers chose one main format.
A Gallup survey asked adults who had read at least one book which method they used most often. This older measure remains useful because its mutually exclusive categories form a valid whole.
Printed books73%
Electronic books19%
Audiobooks6%
Other or unreported residual2%
Your reading rhythm
Save your preferred format.
This choice stays on this device and can be changed whenever your season changes.
The complete experience
Carry the work across formats.
Begin with an audiobook and e-book bundle, use the digital reflection companion after each concise chapter, and choose premium print for gifting, gathering, or a lasting personal library.
Evidence notes
Read the source record.
- Pew Research Center: Americans still opt for print books over digital or audio versions. Survey conducted October 6–16, 2025.
- Pew Research Center data table: 75% any format, 64% print, 31% electronic book, and 26% audiobook among all U.S. adults.
- Gallup: Rumors of the demise of books are greatly exaggerated. Primary method among adults who had consumed at least one book, December 2016.