Reading the scriptures a lot or little, it is really a personal thing. It confuses some people because it is so idealistic. Some people enjoy the entertainment of the intellectual learning and sometimes they can see how it fits with the basic practical stuff that we give and that can help, too. Some people of course can get carried away with just wanting to read and they get stuck in the book and thinking stuff. Then they are lost as a scholar instead of practicing and having some scholar information for inspiration.
The reason that I edited "20 Suttas" and have made it available for free for anyone, is to help people learn a bit about how to read the Suttas. I have read through two of the main books a couple of times and I picked out 20 Suttas that I thought are more down to earth, because most of them are not. Most of them are extremely brief in the basic teaching, and they can be very idealistic, talking about enlightenment, enlightenment, enlightenment, enlightenment. It was therefore difficult for me to find even 20 that I could feel comfortable with to present to people as an introduction to the Suttas. And those 20, I did not translate them, I only edited them. This means I looked at many translations, sometimes it was six different translations of the same Sutta. I looked at it to find which one works the best, which one is actually the best translation and sometimes I would combine some of them. I was looking at them from a practice point of view, translators are looking at it from a scholarly point of view. For example, the Pali word 'aaa' means the English word 'bbb', the Pali word 'ccc' means the English word 'ddd' and so on. But I was looking at them differently.
For one of the Suttas, I had six different translations and I only agreed with one person, the other five were wrong in a certain area. They were definitely wrong from a practice point of view. So that is how I edited the Suttas and I presented them. I don't actually talk about what the Sutta teaches, but I do give some notes at the end of each Sutta as to how to look at them yourself. Because when you are looking at the Suttas, if you do read them, you really have to look at them from the practice point of view to get the most out of them. Otherwise it is just a lot of high level stuff, a lot of brief stuff and you don't get much from it.
So the 20 Suttas that I edited is a very good place to start for any of you who are interested in Sutta reading. Yet always keep in mind if you do like reading them, keep in mind that you do have to practice to fully understand the Suttas.