Ellen Lloyd – AncientPages.com – If you’re a ebook lover, you’ll recognize the annual Icelandic Jolabokaflod or the “Christmas Ebook Flood.” The very best Christmas present in Iceland is a ebook. It has been that manner for many years.
In Iceland, books are exchanged as Christmas Eve presents, and you then spend the remainder of the evening studying in mattress and consuming chocolate. It definitely seems like an ideal Christmas to all bookworms!
This custom is a part of a season known as Jolabokaflod, the ‘Christmas Ebook Flood’ as a result of Iceland, which publishes extra books per capita than another nation, sells most of its books between September and November on account of individuals getting ready for the upcoming vacation.
“The ebook in Iceland is such an infinite present, you give a bodily ebook. You do not give e-books right here,” Bryndís Loftsdottir, venture supervisor, Penninn-Eymundsson bookstores, stated.
Folks in Iceland love books, and 93% of Icelanders learn no less than one ebook a 12 months.
Studying books is one thing individuals in Scandinavia recognize.
Based on a research by John Miller, president of Central Connecticut State College in New Britain, Nordic nations dominate by way of literate conduct traits.
Iceland ranks because the third most literate nation on this planet.
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