Donald Trump doesn’t read much. Being president probably wouldn’t change that.

Trump’s desk is piled high with magazines, nearly all of them with himself on their covers, and each morning, he reviews a pile of printouts of news articles about himself that his secretary delivers to his desk. But there are no shelves of books in his office, no computer on his desk.

.. He said in a series of interviews that he does not need to read extensively because he reaches the right decisions “with very little knowledge other than the knowledge I [already] had, plus the words ‘common sense,’ because I have a lot of common sense and I have a lot of business ability.”

.. Trump said reading long documents is a waste of time because he absorbs the gist of an issue very quickly. “I’m a very efficient guy,” he said. “Now, I could also do it verbally, which is fine. I’d always rather have — I want it short. There’s no reason to do hundreds of pages because I know exactly what it is.”

.. Trump has no shortage of strong opinions even about books he has not read.

.. “It’s certainly legitimate to desire a reflective person in the Oval Office, but the absence of that isn’t inherently dangerous,” Greenberg said. “In Trump’s case, his attitude toward reading is hardly unprecedented, but when you combine it with the vulgarity and the authoritarian style, it shows a locker-room, business-world machismo that pervades his persona.”

.. There is no clear correlation between studious presidents and success in the office, historians said. Carter and Nixon shared “a kind of obsessional quality,”

.. In his 2006 book, “Trump 101: The Way to Success,” Trump recommended, in addition to his own autobiography, the longtime bestseller “The Power of Positive Thinking,” by Norman Vincent Peale, who was Trump’s minister through the early part of his life,