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Originally Posted by omk3
I like reading books in the language they were written in, when possible. I have been known to try and learn new languages just because I liked a specific author that writes in that language. That said, I am only really comfortable with greek and english books, but I have read books in german, french and portuguese, and hope to someday be able to read in japanese (in a few hundred years from now or something  ) |
i agree, but sadly i can only read in 2 languages (so far : i have plans to learn several others, but i just need to find the time...) : french and english. so i also try to choose the translation depending on the original language. for example, a book that was written in italian or spanish, i prefer to read in french. a book written in german or danish, i prefer to read translated in english. i think the "tone" of the languages is closer, and i think it makes a really big difference.
maybe i should have chosen "other" because i have several answers (most important : for work, unavailability), but i voted "yes because of unavailability". since i started reading ebooks, i read mostly in english, just because most of the books i want to read are not available in french (or at least, there are a lot more books in english, so far). most of the french authors i like are not so far published in ebooks, at all. and even a lot of foreign authors are easier to find in english than in french. for example Alessandro Baricco is one of my favourite authors, i really want to buy his book "city", but since he is writing in italian i would prefer to read the french translation. but it's not available ; only available in english. i'm still hesitating, even though i really want to read it. i really hope this will change soon. sometimes i get really frustrated. i've read a lot of good ebooks (in english), but i miss reading in french.