I have been reading my whole life, and I am afraid, usually, it was not too important what it was... Some days I don't read anything at all, after all, 8-12 hours of computer does kill some "eye-cells", some days it's a couple of pages, some it's hundreds. I have been trying to limit how much I read, or at least read only good books in the native language, whenever possible, with no fantasy, minimal sci-fi, and generally history, philosophy, and such... Looking at the last couple of weeks, I must admit that I have failed. I have started or continued to read a lot of the "quality" literature, but most of them are not finished, and many fictional books I "ate" within days... That is bad and I need to continue to work on myself. FictionBook.lib has been my most visited "book shelf." I would like to thank the owner of the website and the numerous editors that make reading classical and modern Russian literature easy and fun even so many miles away from Rodina. Moshkov's Library and Aldebaran were my second two places; what I could not find at FictionBook, I could usually find there... Google Book Search is also often overlooked by readagolics, which is a shame looking at the enormous number of books available free of charge there.
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I have been reading my whole life, and I am afraid, usually, it was not too important what it was... Some days I don't read anything at all, after all, 8-12 hours of computer does kill some "eye-cells", some days it's a couple of pages, some it's hundreds. I have been trying to limit how much I read, or at least read only good books in the native language, whenever possible, with no fantasy, minimal sci-fi, and generally history, philosophy, and such... Looking at the last couple of weeks, I must admit that I have failed. I have started or continued to read a lot of the "quality" literature, but most of them are not finished, and many fictional books I "ate" within days... That is bad and I need to continue to work on myself.