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Yeah, I'm also baffled at your thinking of "I'll leave it all to chance, I'll face it with a grin" as an ongoing action. It's not like you'll be doing whatever it is you're going to do all along...

It's already perfective it just means a different thing :)

почитать (per.) - to spend time reading
прочитать (per.) to read the whole piece of text

BTW, по+ base verb has a very wide and...