Either Obama loved the book so much he’s reading it twice, or he’s a painfully slow reader, or his handlers are lying. Via “Jamie Wearing Fool“, the NY Post reports:

Looks like President Obama is one slow reader.
The commander in chief’s list of beach books for his Martha’s Vineyard vacation includes an environmental best seller that he bragged about reading almost a year ago on the campaign trail.
Obama was so taken with Thomas Friedman’s “Hot, Flat and Crowded” that he quoted it at a rally last September in Flint, Mich., and one media outlet described it as the book that was currently on the then-candidate’s nightstand.
The 448-page book appeared again on Monday on the list of five books that Obama planned to read on his vacation in Martha’s Vineyard.

Maybe someone in the press corps, if anyone has actually read Friedman’s book and not just bought it because it looks good on the shelf, can give the president a little quiz at the end of the vacation?