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Microsoft founder Bill Gates is an avid reader.
- Bill Gates carries a tote bag full of books almost everywhere he goes.
- In a recent interview with the Wall Street Journal, Gates discussed a new Netflix documentary about his life, Microsoft's legacy, and some of the books he's reading now.
- Of the four he mentioned, standouts include "These Truths" by Jill Lepore and "every word" novelist David Foster Wallace has ever written.
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Bill Gates carries a tote bag full of books almost everywhere he goes, according to his recent interview with the Wall Street Journal.
Like fellow billionaire Warren Buffett, Gates loves to read and does so often. In fact, he told the Journal that he gets through about one book a week, amounting to roughly 50 a year. Gates discussed some of his current reads, including "These Truths" by Jill Lepore and "every word" novelist David Foster Wallace has ever written.
Gates also talked to the Journal about the legacy of his Microsoft empire, his alleged ties to Jeffrey Epstein, and his latest projects with the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, the charity organization he runs with his wife. The profile came in advance of the upcoming Netflix documentary, "Inside Bill's Brain," which chronicles Gates's life and work.
Here's everything noteworthy in Gates's tote bag.
