Thought of the Day - Reading Week

Bill Gates takes an annual "reading week" would it be worth doing the same?

Sure i'm no Bill Gates and i read quite a lot as things are, but is it worth dedicating a week of holidays purely to reading? Would it be a good way of clearing the backlog of books i have?

An interesting thought i had was; If i did this would i be best to just have a pile of books and spend the week in a cottage with no technology at all or whether some sort of technology would be beneficial. The argument against technology is pretty compelling and can be summed up in 2 words: no distractions. But having a laptop would be useful for taking notes (would save me typing them up when i got back) and potentially having the internet would enable me to research things more deeply, bookmark future reading etc but is that worth the potential distraction.