I’ve been seeing how long I can keep up with the nuEU mostly because I came to the old one too late to ever have a chance at being reasonably familiar with the bulk of it and I kind of always felt like I’d missed out. I’ve been getting lazy about picking up the comics, but I’m only maybe a month behind. I’ve read all the novels except the Ventress one, the Battlefront tie-in, and that YA TFA prequel. I’ve got a handful of friends who are also reading the comics, but I don’t know anyone who’s picked up the books. Back in the day we all played the video games religiously and read whichever Bantam novels turned up on the grocery store paperback rack but I didn’t know anyone reading the comics. Myself and everyone I know who was into the EU drifted away from it around the time of the first few NJO books. So uh. Yeah. In middle school I knew maybe fifteen people who were following stuff outside the movies, and now I know three. There’s some EU readership data for you.