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The tablet is not mainstream. Reading off the screen is not mainstream.

For people who are readers, reading is important to them.

I don’t generally read a lot of fiction.

Any book that helps a child to form a habit of reading, to make reading one of his deep and continuing needs, is good for him.

I grew up reading science fiction.

Reading, after a certain age, diverts the mind too much from its creative pursuits. Any man who reads too much and uses his own brain too little falls into lazy habits of thinking.

The length of this document defends it well against the risk of its being read.

There is no author whose books I look forward to more than Vaclav Smil.

Today I continue with my science-fiction reading habit and find it very mind-expanding. Always makes me think.

I’ve read everything Thomas Wolfe ever wrote; my brother and I memorized whole chapters of ‘You Can’t Go Home Again’ and ‘Look Homeward, Angel.’