This year's list of most literate cities has been unveiled, with Minneapolis and Seattle tied for first place and the nation's northern latitudes coming in with a high bookish quotient. In its sixth year, the annual ranking is put out by John W. Miller, president of Central Connecticut State University. Miller views the level of literacy in a given location as a measure of the place's quality of life and level of culture. "I wanted to do a study of not whether people could read but whether or not they do read," he explains. The latter is the more important, he says. After all, in the words of the American literary giant Mark Twain, "The person that doesn't read has no advantage over the person who can't."