The answer is 85% and 60%. To simplify, although the majority of people possessed few books, at most a Bible and one or two other religious works, it seems now that literacy rates were much higher than had formerly been believed, possibly as high as 85% percent for men and 60% for women in European urban centers. In addition, the general culture that industrialized from the eighteenth-century enlightenment was literary and with the rise in literacy and the book business in the eighteenth century, censorship was uneven in its enactment.
