Ellen Lloyd – AncientPages.com – In case you are a e-book lover, you’d respect the annual Icelandic Jolabokaflod or the “Christmas E-book Flood.” The very best Christmas reward in Iceland is a e-book. It has been that approach for many years.
In Iceland, books are exchanged as Christmas Eve presents, and then you definately spend the remainder of the night time studying in mattress and consuming chocolate. It definitely appears like an ideal Christmas to all bookworms!
This custom is a part of a season known as Jolabokaflod, the ‘Christmas E-book Flood’ as a result of Iceland, which publishes extra books per capita than some other nation, sells most of its books between September and November because of folks getting ready for the upcoming vacation.
“The e-book in Iceland is such an unlimited reward, you give a bodily e-book. You do not give e-books right here,” Bryndís Loftsdottir, challenge supervisor, Penninn-Eymundsson bookstores, mentioned.
Individuals in Iceland love books, and 93% of Icelanders learn a minimum of one e-book a 12 months. Studying books is one thing folks in Scandinavia respect.
In response to a examine by John Miller, president of Central Connecticut State College in New Britain, Nordic nations dominate when it comes to literate habits traits. Iceland ranks because the third most literate nation on the earth.
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