As a lover of reading, and a regular user of the Tasmanian public library system , I have been fascinated by this post “ Do Pakistanis Read? (and the missing libraries of Pakistan) ” on the excellent All Things Pakistan website. It got me thinking, what is the state of public libraries in other countries? I really don’t know. Similarly, I am not really aware of the varieties of cultural attitudes to reading. So I decided to ask anyone visiting this blog to let me know, do you personally use libraries? Do you think that there is an easily defined attitude towards reading in your particular country? I would love to know.