NEW YORK (AP) — A study finds that 12 percent of U.S. households now own a reading device for electronic books, such as Amazon's Kindle.

That's three times the number of households that owned an e-reader just a year ago, pointing to rapid acceptance.

The phone survey published Monday was conducted in April and May by the Pew Internet and American Life Project.

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Pew also asked households if they had a desktop or laptop computer, a question it has posed since 2006. Desktop households have outnumbered laptops until this year. For the first time, the two figures were within the margin of error, at 57 percent and 56 percent respectively — a statistical dead heat. Laptop ownership has nearly doubled since 2006, while desktops have declined slightly.

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