ADVANTAGES OF READING BOOKS

1. Can change your life – Good book can change your life particularly when you apply the idea or instruction it contains. Have you ever read the book: “purpose driven Life”? This has a positive impact in my life. There are other books that can also change your life to worse. Choose your book wisely.
2. Saves money – Apart from saving money on entertainment expenses. Reading books that help you develop your skills saves money. Reading books on how someone went bankrupt will be a warning to you against repeating their mistakes. Reading a book on how to build your own backyard deck saves the expense of hiring a contractor.
3. Builds your expertise – Brian Tracy has said one way to become an expert in your chosen field is to read 100 books on the subject…
4. Improves your reasoning skills – Books for professionals contain arguments for or against the actions within. You too will be able to reason better with the knowledge you gain. Some of the arguments will rub off on you. Others you will argue against. Regardless, you’ll be reasoning better.
5. Gives you something to talk about – Have you ever run out of stuff to talk about with your best friend, wife or husband? This can be uncomfortable. It might even make married couples wonder if their marriage is in trouble. However, if you read a lot of books, you’ll always have something to talk about. You can discuss various plots in the novels you read, you can discuss the stuff you are learning in the business books you are reading as well. The possibilities of sharing are endless.
6. Books are inexpensive entertainment – Book is cheaper to buy than attending a cinema, party, or entertaining your guest.
7. You can learn at your own pace – Where formal education requires time commitments, books have no late-bells or hourly commitments. So you can learn at your own pace when you read books.
8. New mental associations – As you read more books the depth and breadth of your knowledge expands and your ability to form new associations’ increases. In reading a book to discover the solution to one problem, you find the solution to others you may not have considered.
9. Reading is an active mental process – Books make you to use your brain. By reading, you think more and become smarter.
10. It is a fundamental skill builder - Every good course on the planet has a matching book to go with it. Why? Because books help clarify difficult subjects. Books provide information that goes deeper than just classroom discussion.
11. Builds self-esteem – By reading more books, you become well informed and become an expert on the topics you read about. This expertise translates into higher self esteem.  People look to you for answers to divers’ problem. 
12. Improves memory – Many studies shows that if you don’t use your memory, you lose it. Reading requires remembering details, facts and figures and in literature, plot lines, themes and characters.
13. Improves your discipline – Actually many people fail to understand that books can help then instill discipline. Sticking to a book and wanting to get new idea is a discipline that takes the wise to develop. That is why adding book reading to your daily schedule and sticking to it, improves discipline.
14. Learn anywhere – Books are portable. You can take them almost anywhere. As such, you can learn almost anywhere too.

15. Improves creativity – by reading more books and exposing yourself to new and more complete information, you will also be able to come up with more creative ideas

16. Improves your vocabulary – Remember in elementary school when you learned how to know the meaning of one word by reading the context of the other words in the sentence? You get the same benefit from book reading. While reading books, especially challenging ones, you will find yourself exposed to many new words you wouldn’t be otherwise.
17. Gives you a glimpse into other cultures and places – What is your favorite vacation spot? I would bet you read a lot about that destination. Books can expand your horizons by letting you see what other cities and countries have to offer before you visit them.
18. Improves concentration and focus – Reading requires you to focus on what you are reading for long periods. Unlike magazines, Internet posts or e-Mails that might contain small chunks of information. Books tell the whole story. Since you must concentrate in order to read, like a muscle, you will get better at concentration.