In an interview posted here not so long ago, Jason Fried said he never reads fiction. And something about the way he said it - I can't remember the exact wordin

In an interview posted here not so long ago, Jason Fried said he never reads fiction. And something about the way he said it - I can't remember the exact wording - scandalized some folks (here and on the tubes). The reason I mention it now is that many people on the HN thread agreed with him and you that they didn't read much non-fiction. So I suspect there are a lot of people like you here. I tend to go in waves. Once upon a time, I was a Comparative Literature major, then a Classics graduate student. I read novels and scholarship about novels and then ancient philosophy and scholarship about ancient philosophy pretty much only. My days had only so many free hours. About five/six years ago, I became interested in programming, learned a first language, and now I devote most of my free reading time to programming books or books about programming. (With some breaks for this or that novel...) The big constant for me is reading. In my experience, it's not so much a question of what you read but if you read. Readers read - a lot - even if their tastes vary over time. I remember literally running my middle school library out of books in five or six categories. The librarian would laugh and point me in a different direction when I finished a type of book. That part has never changed.