The Denver Post
January 15, 2006 Sunday
FINAL EDITION

“Book smarts”
Tom Walker, Denver Post Staff Writer

Give yourselves a pat on the back, you book princes and princesses of Denver. You read enough to put the Queen City of the Plains at No. 6 on the 2005 list of America's Most Literate Cities.

It takes a serious commitment to make it nearly to the top of the heap of the nation's 69 largest cities. Researchers at Center Connecticut State University considered newspaper circulation, number of bookstores, library resources, periodical publishing resources, education and the expansion of media to online resources. Only Seattle, Minneapolis, Washington, D.C., Atlanta and San Francisco crack the books more than we do. Colorado Springs (19) and Aurora (55) also made the list.

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