America's Royalty Commands You to Read

Remember those vaguely creepy posters in your old school library? The ones that featured celebrities not reading, exactly, but rather looking into a camera whilst holding a book? From the Annoyed Librarian:

"Wow! Who knew that these silly posters have such a powerful effect on people. At first, I assumed such a statement was obviously a complete lie concocted by some shameless PR person at ALA. PR people have an arm's length relationship with the truth, so we can expect little from them. But then again, this is the ALA talking here, so we have to take it seriously. Since it's the ALA, and they never lie, I assume a statement as bold as this is backed up by some statistically sound evidence, but nevertheless I wanted to test it for myself."

Find out the results, by clicking the link. And, for those of you who appreciate things ironically, you can get your own READ posters here.