Have you met Mormons and Christians who are incapable of reading things other than scripture and worse-look down on those of us who read other things? It's a rarity but I have. Thankfully more and more Christians (And yes, LDS are Christians) have broken away from that thinking. What's sad is that mainstream culture still thinks that we are all like that and don't read anything but the Book of Mormon while we drink milk and cookies.
I hope you don't fall into this stereotype but I can assure you of this: even the prophets and apostles read things other than the Book of Mormon. Holland I believe has his Ph.D in English. If you think you can acquire that by just reading the Book of Mormon-you are wrong. President Uchtdorf was a pilot. As a hobby, I wouldn't be surprised that in his spare time he reads technical flying magazines or maybe fiction books about planes. Let's face it-the dude does love flying.
The prophets and apostles are regular people. I can see them reading sports magazines or political/current events ones. Maybe they like reading history or poetry, biographies or pulp novels, whatever is popular or maybe Elizabethan drama like Ben Johnson. Regardless, it's perfectly fine to chill out a bit with a book/magazine whatever that has nothing to do with the church.
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