same as cape...tv in the background helps. i guess you have to be interested in the topic to make you interested, so it up to you but also up to the lecturer and what they pick, i mean articles are so much easier to read that scholarly articles.
and i agree with cape again, since when are readings fun? the only ever reading i enjoyed out of high school was an article which had like names and their associated meaning [humourously made of course] e.g Richard: the boy who draws p*nises on toilet doors...and uni? er...an accounting chapter that made accounting more interesting to me [yes very nerdy]