Bush is an "avid reader" during his vacation

I couldn't get beyond the first sentences of this story without chuckling:

Dec 27, 2005 -- CRAWFORD, Texas (Reuters) - President George W. Bush is spending part of his Christmas holiday reading about the post-presidential years of Theodore Roosevelt and the lives of U.S. troops in Iraq, Afghanistan and elsewhere.

Bush was reading "When Trumpets Call: Theodore Roosevelt After the White House," by Patricia O'Toole, and "Imperial Grunts: The American Military on the Ground," by Robert Kaplan while on holiday at his Texas ranch, said White House spokesman Trent Duffy.[...]

Asked whether there was any significance that Bush, who has three years left in office, was reading a book about the post-White House years of a former president, Duffy replied that Bush is a "history buff" and "avid reader."

So Bush, who can't focus on a single issue for more than one polling cycle at a time, has enough focus to read a 512 page book? We can think of more pressing items that need the President's study, can't we? My suggestions for his winter break reading:  the Constitution, the Declaration of Independence, and the Geneva Conventions.