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Former United States president Barack Obama published the first volume of his memoir, A Promised Land, last month.
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Amid the tumult of 2020, many turned to reading books for escape and solace.
A survey by Toronto-based digital reading company Rakuten Kobo found that Kobo users in Singapore spent more than 10,400 days reading this year - the equivalent of 28 years. They clocked 270 per cent more reading minutes than last year, with May - during the circuit breaker period - being the month that people read the most.
