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If the original is in Portuguese, Italian or English, I'm probably reading the book in the original.
If it's in Latin or German, I try to read it in the original, and then if I feel like I'm not up to the task I revert back to one of the first three. (For example: I can read Caesar in Latin just fine, but I'm not reading Cicero.)
If it's in any other language, I'll read it in whichever language I found a good translation for.
Holy moly, how many languages do you know? ๐
From three to seven, depending on how proficient one needs to be in a language to "speak" it. (The other two that I didn't mention are Venetian and Spanish. Counting either feels like cheating though - I'm mostly transposing knowledge from Portuguese and Italian into those two, although I did have some exposure to Venetian as a kid.)