Jak čtou gymnazisté knihy a e-knihy

This study deals with the attitude of grammar school students toward books, e-books and reading. It reports the results of surveys, provides an analysies of the received data, and presents conclusions about the findings. The inspirations for the research problem, as well as the methodological solutions to the survey, were drawn from professional books written by Jiří Trávníček Do We Read? Czech Citizens and Their Attitude to Books (2008), Readers and Internauts. Czech Citizens and Their Attitude to Book (2011), Overloaded by Books. What we read and buy (2013) and Czech Readers' Republic (2017), which represent contemporary large-scale survey projects of focused on reading habits in the Czech Republic. The survey questioned grammar school students comprising 437 interviewees, out of which 150 were men and 287 women. The research factors included: – readers and their stratification, non-readers; – reading of e-books; – the extent of reading, the frequency of reading, readers’ expectations, the purchase of books; – digital reading, internet, electronic books, reading devices; – the influence of the environment on readership, home libraries.