UPDATE: if you want to become a good reader

things to do if you want to become a good reader:

1. be aware of fancy covers
2. interrupt your lectures
3. don't finish books that can't challenge and/or entertain you
4. read Italo Calvino
5. write
6. cross your readings
7. read Alberto Manguel
8. go to lectures that have only been around for a short while
9. be patient
10. read Denis Diderot (Jacques le fataliste)

and (hardcore): the literary theory of Ottmar Ette (Germany).