e-books

I've just started reading Crime & Punishment by Dovesky; it's a Russian translation but so far is very boring. I found myself blanking out a lot of the text, but it's on an e-book so I find myself just sliding through pages and drifting off rather than actually reading them. Wonder if I would concentrate more if I had the proper book...Anyway story is really boring so far; I wonder if it's to do with the translation. It was similar with Anna Kavanna.