Boston ranks No. 8 on a list of America's most literate cities, according to an annual study examining the "culture and resources for reading" in the nation's largest metro areas.Moving up two notches from 2007, the Hub ranks below top-rated urban enclaves Minneapolis and Seattle (tying for the No. 1 slot) in a survey analyzing six key indicators of literacy including newspaper circulation, number of bookstores, library resources, periodical publishing resources, educational attainment and Internet resources.
The findings from Central Connecticut State University focuses on cities with populations of 250,000 or more and come at time when Boston-area newspaper circulations are declining.
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