I usually do all my reading at Barnes & Noble and buy my books from Amazon.com but I browsed a store in town called Half Priced Books and picked up some cool classics. Some I’ve read long ago and others I’ve missed along the way.

I re-read Old Man and the Sea which I also liked and am reading David Copperfield for the first time. Although I bought these beforehand, a quote from Einstein sparked my interest even more.

Somebody who reads only newspapers and at best the books of contemporary authors looks to me like an extremely nearsighted person who scorns eyeglasses. He is completely dependent on the prejudices and fashions of his times, since he never gets to see or hear anything else. And what a person thinks on his own without being stimulated by the thoughts and experiences of other people is even in the best case rather paltry and monotonous

He’s got a great point. I find that reading things I wouldn’t normally read (tech magazines, articles, and manuals) stimulate me much more.