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I don't ever remember NOT reading.
At age 4 I got a huge (to a 4 year old) encyclopedia for christmas.
I was known to the librarians in the town library (adult section) while still at junior school. I used to get the three volumes of The Lord of the Rings every two weeks, read it all, then renew it on my parents library tickets. This went on for about 3 years. Then my parents bought the books for christmas. The adult library gave me my own set of adult tickets, along with warnings not go near the Mills and Boon section. Good advice which I still follow to this day.
One day the headmaster at school, a nasty, groping piece of work, decided that the school library was not going to have any fiction any more. He said it was too small. Naturally us kids had no say in the matter. On the due day we all brought the books we had on loan and they were put in bin bags and taken to the town tip. Except the ones I had. I rescued them and still have them to this day. "Sea Gold" by John Blaine is one of them, a really old well read book.
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