Investigating the reading habits of adults in Egypt, East Africa, a study examined 294 Egyptians (233 males and 61 females) in post-secondary education in Cairo, and in the industrial cities of Shopra El-Khema, and Impapa, El-Giza. Marital status, sex, and occupation were used to group the subjects. Subjects completed a 29-item questionnaire covering five reading habits categories--satisfaction with reading, types of material read, reading efficiency, ease and availability of obtaining reading materials, and impact of environment on reading. Results indicated that more married than single, and more males than females, read religious materials. Significant differences were also reported between males and females, and between white collar and professional subjects, regarding their reading habits. Findings from this study were compared with a reading habits study of 59 adult subjects in Senegal, West Africa. Comparison showed that both Senegalese and Egyptian subjects would like to read better, liked to read, read newspapers often, enjoyed reading fiction, would like to take a course to improve their reading, and retained most of what they read for a reasonable period of time. (Ten tables of data are included, and a reading habits questionnaire and 11 references are appended.) (MM)