Table 7, on the next page, contains a summary of the variety of print media that adults in the study report that they use regularly in their homes. In addition to her "junk papers", Andrea reveals that she has "75 romance books up in my room I haven't read yet." She also has been involved in home sales for a general merchandise company and a beauty supply company and has their catalogues and record keeping with which to contend. She does the paperwork when her children are asleep or at school. Julie was just starting to get into reading. She struggled in school and is just beginning to read for pleasure. In her academic upgrading, she is at about the sixth grade level. She discloses, "I'm just starting to get into it…I never did before…because I couldn't understand it. It took me a long time to - to understand what it was all about. And now I'm just starting to -uh- starting to enjoy it really." Natalie indicates that she would like to take advantage of garage sales to pick up some books but there are not really any garage sales in her neighbourhood and she does not have a way to get around town to them. Both Andrea and Jane know that that they can access the school library from a notice they got from the school, but by the conclusion of the study, neither one had yet taken advantage of this and stated they were not even sure how the library operated.

Julie points out that she bought books for her children through a mail order book club and at the time of the study had about 25 books, while Natalie was sharing her love of reading with her sons and already her two boys have a collection of 60 books. Natalie reports getting some of her books from yard sales and trading between friends. Jane orders from the book clubs at school usually a couple of times a year. Beth indicates that the total of her three children's collection of books was about fifteen, some of which she had purchased through a mail order company after receiving information flyers and order forms through the mail. Her children also receive books as gifts for Christmas and birthdays. Michelle keeps some of her children's 50 books on the microwave cart in the kitchen and the rest are on a set of shelves in the basement. The source for her children's collection is mail book orders plus some books purchased by her mother. She also borrows books for her children regularly from the area child development centre. However, she states that if she wants a book for herself, she is more like likely to go and buy it instead of borrowing.