Question

Poate va rog cineva sa imi spuna care este idea principala a textului? :(
Some people read for instructions, which is praiseworthy, some for pleasure, which is innocent, but not a few read from habit, and i suppose that this is neither innocent nor praiseworthy. Of that lamentable company I am. Conversation after a time bores, games tire me, and my own thoughts, which we are told are the unfailing resource of a sensible man, have a tendency to run dry. Then I fly to my book as a heavy smoker to his pipe. I would sooner read the catalogue of the Army and Navy stores or Bradshaw's Guide than nothing at all, and indeed I have spent many delightful hours over both these works. At one time I never went out without a second-hand bookseller's list in my pocket. I know no reading more fruity.
I never venture far without a sufficiency of reading matter. But when I starting on a long journey the problem is formidable. I have learnt my lesson. Once, imprisoned by illness for three months in a hill-town in Java, I came to the end of all the books i had bought with me, and knowing no Dutch was obliged to buy the school-books from which intelligent Javanese. I suppose, acquired knowledge of French and German. So I read again after five and twenty years the frigid plays of Goethe, the fables of La Frontaine and tragediea of tender and exact Racine.

Answer 1

the idea is that you must read many books to become smart and to know many things that will help you.
idea este că trebuie să citești cărți ca să fii inteligent și să știi multe lucruri care te vor ajuta.