Houston: You don't read good

A national study by Central Connecticut State University ranked Houston 53rd out of 69 of the nation's top cities for literacy, the Houston Business Journal reported.

Oddly, the study doesn't really look at literacy rates. According to the report, the study's author, John Miller, president of Central Connecticut State University, examines factors like newspaper circulation, the number of bookstores and library resources as a gauge of a city's literacy. Internet literacy was included in this year's study, though.

So apparently, Houston could use more Barnes & Nobles or something. (Or, perhaps, more Houstonians could read Houstonist.) Last year, Houston wasn't much worse off, ranking 63rd out of 79 cities.

The top five cities were Seattle, Minneapolis, Washington, D.C., Atlanta and San Francisco.