President Barack Obama is known for his reading habit, but he comes from a long line of literate presidents.
Former president Theodore Roosevelt was known to consume many books and he shared his advice on reading with others.
The Art of Manliness has shared Roosevelt’s advice. Check it out:
Of course any reader ought to cultivate his or her taste so that good books will appeal to it, and that trash won’t. But after this point has once been reached, the needs of each reader must be met in a fashion that will appeal to those needs. Personally the books by which I have profited infinitely more than by any others have been those in which profit was a by-product of the pleasure; that is, I read them because I enjoyed them, because I liked reading them, and the profit came in as part of the enjoyment.