While reading always brings benefits, reading long texts has its own particular advantages. When reading long texts, you are required to pay attention for a longer period of time. This is important in order for you to develop skills in concentration and focus. Moreover, long texts require you to hold a larger amount of information in your mind so that you fully understand the story's contents and meaning. When analyzing the story, you are also required to take more characters, events and descriptions into account, which makes for a more challenging situation and allows you to develop better analyzing skills. Finally, long texts are more likely to contribute to the development of your vocabulary.