he first thing I want to insist on is that reading should be enjoyable. Of course, there are many books that we all have to road, either to pass examinations or to acquire information,from which it is impossible to extract enjoyment. We aro reading them for instruction, and the best we can hope is that our need for it will enable us to get through them without todium. Such books wo read with resignation rather than with alacrity. But that is not the sort of roading I have in mind. The books I shall mention in due course will help you neither to get a degree nor to earn your living, they will not teach you to sail a boat or get a stalled motor to run, but they will help you to live more fully. That, however, they cannot do unless you enjoy reading them.
         Every man is his own best critic. Whatever the learned say about a book, however unanimous they are in their praise of it,unless it interests you, it is no business of yours. And you who read are the final judge of the value to you of the book you are reading. We are none of us exactly like everyone else, only rather like, and it would be unreasonable to suppose that the books that have meant a great deal to me should be precisely those that will mean a great deal to you. But they are books that I feel the richer for having read, and I think I should not be quite the man I am if I had not read them. No one is under an obligation to read poetry or fiction or the miscellaneous literature which is classed as belleslettres. He must read them for pleasure, and who can claim that what pleases one man must necessarily please another?
内容：为休闲阅读
    他第一件事，我要强调的是，阅读应该愉快。当然，有很多书，我们都必须的道路，要么通过考试或获取信息，从中提取是不可能的享受。我们奥勒阅读的指导他们，最好的，我们能希望的是，我们需要它将使我们能够通过他们获得不todium。禾读这类书，而不是爽快辞职。但是，这不是筑路我心目中的排序。这些书我将在适当时候将帮助您提到既获得学位，也没有，让您的生活，他们不会教你驾船或获得停滞电机运行，但它们将帮助你生活得更充分。然而，这是没有可能，除非您可以阅读。
      每个人都是他自己最好的批评。不管学到了一本书说，但是他们一致的称赞它是，除非你的利益，这是不是你的业务。而且你看是谁的价值判断的最终你正在阅读的书给你。我们，我们没有其他人完全一样，只是有点像，它是不合理的假设意味着有大量我应该正是这些将意味着很大您的图书。但他们的书，我觉得富裕也读过，我觉得我不应该是相当的人，我如果我不读。没有人有义务或小说，诗歌朗诵，或杂文学的是belleslettres归类。他必须阅读享乐，以及谁可以说讨好一个人必然要请其他？