Like the rest of the nation, Spokane was obsessed with “Fifty Shades of Grey” a few years ago.

Spokane Public Library circulation records say the e-book was borrowed a total of 696 times in 2012 and the total number of checkouts for the trilogy was 1,677. No book has been borrowed more in a single year since.

Spokane County readers stayed on the “Fifty Shades” train a little longer: The trilogy occupies the top three e-book slots in 2013, with 1,397 checkouts, and all three volumes appear in 2014 as well, with 884 checkouts.

But if you look at checkout data on physical books, “Fifty Shades” had 511 checkouts in 2012, dropping it to 10th place. Is that because people were embarrassed to go to the library and check out a physical copy of the sexually explicit novel? There’s no way to know for sure, but Rob Roose, the city library’s director of support services, said he buys it/Rachel Alexander, SR. More here.

Question: Have you read "Fifty shades of Gray"?