Gyeonggi-do Cyber Library, Last Year's Top Book Loan Was 'Dalpaengi Sikdang'

Top 10 Most Borrowed E-Books from Gyeonggi-do Cyber Library Last Year

Last year, the most popular e-book at the Gyeonggi-do Cyber Library was "The Snail Restaurant" by Ogawa Ito (RH Korea). It was followed by "Hope for the Flowers" by Trina Paulus (Sodam Publishing) and "The Paper Crane Murder Case" by Chinen Mikato (Book Plaza).

Also ranking 4th to 10th were ▲Trade Volume Investment (Buff Dormayer, Iremedia) ▲A Small Ball Shot by a Dwarf (Jo Se-hee, Communication Books) ▲Tomboy Psychopath (Ki Yunsul, Gozneuk ENT) ▲The Story of Manager Kim Who Works at a Large Corporation and Owns a House in Seoul. 1: Manager Kim Edition (Song Hee-gu, Seosamdok) ▲Classmates (Fred Uhlman, Open Books) ▲The Murder Case of a Mystery Novelist (Higashino Keigo, Somi Media) ▲The Other Mrs. (Mary Kubica, Happy Books to You).

For audiobooks listened to by ear, "The Little Prince" (Saint-Exup?ry, Sound Books), "Greek and Roman Mythology Dramatized" (Editorial Department, Sound Books), and "The Nature of Money" (Kim Seung-ho, Snowfox Books) ranked 1st to 3rd, the same as last year.

The number of new members at the Gyeonggi-do Cyber Library last year was about 72,000, and the current electronic resources held number about 22,000 titles. The total number of e-book loans used by residents last year, including subscription-based e-books, was counted at 970,000.

By subject usage rate, novels accounted for the highest at 23.4%, followed by business and economics (16.2%), and children’s books (9%).

By age group of members, those in their 40s (24.8%) and 20s (21.7%) were the most numerous, and the monthly usage rate was highest in January at 10.2%.

The Gyeonggi-do Cyber Library allows members to borrow up to 12 e-books for free per person: up to 10 general e-books (loan period 5 days) and 2 foreign e-books (loan period 14 days).

This content was produced with the assistance of AI translation services.