Do you read for pleasure? Do you read when you're sad? Do you read for inspiration? Just for school? (not likely if you're on this site... ;)).
Do you read for passing time? Do you read for friendship? Do you read to find ideas? Do you read to make use of waiting, lines, or travel? Do you read to find out what is current or what happened in times before your time? Do you read for imagination? Do you read for knowledge? Do you read for all of these and read some more for courage?
Do you read books, magazines, publications, journals, newspapers, memos, signs? Do you read old notebooks, children's homework, bits of stickies left in library books by other someones?
Do you read for comfort?
Do you read for hope?
Do you read to understand?
Do you read because you cannot, would not, do not want to, stop...?
I think reading to is important if you plane to write, so writing "Abanoub" My novel is a product of reading many many books.
All the best Na'ama :)