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For yet another year, D.C. was named the most literate major city in America.

The study by Central Connecticut State University focuses on the “number of bookstores, educational attainment, Internet resources, library resources, periodical publishing resources, and newspaper circulation” of cities with a population of over 250,000 people. The city actually ranked outside the top ten in both the booksellers (16th) and library (15th) categories. Ranked below D.C. are Seattle, Minneapolis, Atlanta and Pittsburgh.

If you measure literacy by the number of people who can, you know, read, D.C. would certainly not be at the top of the list. A 2007 study found that one in three people in D.C. are functionally illiterate, compared with one in five nationally. Instead, this study tries to figure out “how much people are reading and where they are reading the most.”