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1596ff3 Keynes was a voracious reader. He had what he called 'one of the best of all gifts - the eye which can pick up the print effortlessly'. If one was to be a good reader, that is to read as easily as one breathed, practice was needed. 'I read the newspapers because they're mostly trash,' he said in 1936. 'Newspapers are good practice in learning how to skip; and, if he is not to lose his time, every serious reader must have this art.' Travelli.. books bookshops library Richard Davenport-Hines