OK, firstly if you're looking for information about the English town "Reading", you're in the wrong place. This is about reading books. I'm trying to cater for all levels of adventure and excitement, remember? Although if you are looking for information about the English town "Reading", you might want to look in the Lacrosse section, as I hear they've got a rather fine lacrosse team!
Now, secondly, don't worry. I'm not going to inflict my angst-ridden teenage poetry on you. I'm not that cruel. Instead, what I can do is recommend to you some fantastic literature to read, and it won't cost you a penny. Forget buying "digital books" in obscure formats from the internet, just download a plain text file for free, and do what you want with it. Put it on your palmtop to read on the train, print it out and read it in the park, search it, cut and paste it, whatever. And once you've done that, you can long for the eventual arrival of readable electronic paper, the ideal medium for this stuff.
So what is this free library? It's called Project Gutenberg, it's run by volunteers, it's got hundreds of classics available for immediate download, and because all the copyrights have expired (or the texts were never copyrighted), it's all free and all above board. You won't find any of the latest bestsellers, but you can get all those great works of literature you always thought you should read, like for example William Shakespeare, Alexandre Dumas (my personal recommendation), maybe some Oscar Wilde or Sherlock Holmes or ... the list goes on. There's a host of excellent stuff on there, just have a look at their site.
Another good source of information and material is the excellent Wikipedia, from which for example you can find a host of Short Story Authors, or just search the Wikipedia for other authors or books.
Not really reading, but contemplation of the English language, which is tenuously connected enough to be shoved in to the reading room. Never complain about learning a foreign language again.
A light-hearted look at some difficult-to-say tongue twisters, in both English and German.