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Beware of having Readers as fields of the class; they are often better declared as local variables. You are failing to close the Reader; this can potentially lead to resource leaks. You ought to close the Reader in a "finally" block; example
here.
Don't use system.out in a catch; use System.err. Your error message is a little too basic; you might do better with e.printStackTrace(), which gives you more details. Beware of the read() method, which only reads one character at a time, and often doesn't provide what you need. If you need lots of characters, you might do well to put your reading into a loop.