- You get to travel basically anywhere in the world without spending an exorbitant amount of money or time
- You get to learn massive amounts from other people’s mistakes, which means you don’t have to figure everything out through trial and error
- You’ll have an endless supply of random facts and stories and words that cause people to look askance
- Books are quite portable, and therefore can pretty much go everywhere with you
- Books are endurable and withstand crazy amounts of abuse – sure they might not look pretty afterward, but they’re generally still readable
- You meet new friends all the time – both fictional and real (authors make great friends)
- You never run out of subjects to talk about because there’s always your latest read to discuss
- That beautiful moment when a book recommends someone to you (aka, a perfect stranger is reading one of your favorite tomes)
- You learn to think outside of the box and are blown away by someone’s creativity and imagination
- Lightbulb moments are frequent occurrences
- You’ll be inspired to live a fuller, more rich life
- Reading is a great thing to do while multitasking. Reading and brushing your teeth? Yep. Reading and cooking? Yep. Walking and reading? Yep. (See?)
- While traveling you can bring old favorites along and read them if you get homesick
- The library will supply reading material for totally free! (It doesn’t get much better than that, does it?)
- It broadens your horizon as you learn to see the world through multiple generations, mindsets, worldviews, and cultures
- Reading is a great way to stretch your brain and revisit forgone conclusions
- You lengthen your attention span
- Reading helps you learn how to relate to others better
- Reading can help you relax
- Readers can find a community of other readers where they discuss thoughts about what they’ve been reading
Bonus (which may or may not be benefits):
- You’ll have a larger readability vocabulary than speaking vocabulary which will lead to cringe-worthy mispronunciation
What are some of your favorite benefits to reading?
Noveltea 
I agree with this post wholeheartedly, especially with this: “You’ll have a larger readability vocabulary than speaking vocabulary which will lead to cringe-worthy mispronunciation.” Too many times, too many times…
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Haha, I think that’s one a lot of us can relate to! It’s amazing how different words sound compared to how they look. 🙂
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I can’t even count the number of times I’ve pronounced a word hilariously wrong after learning it from a book. 😛 Also, I love your point about a book recommending a person – that totally seems to be the case! 🙂
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I know, right? Sometimes I remember words so differently than how they’re actually supposed to be written, that in the end I can’t even figure out how to spell them. Now that’s bad! =)
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Oh my goodness, these are so on point! I can relate to all of them! Especially mispronouncing a word that I’ve only read before… I’m notorious with my family for doing that. xD
~ Hannah M.
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But at least we have big vocabularies. That’s a plus, right? 😉 I’ve also found that quite often I have no clue how to pronounce strange character’s names – I just subconsciously give them a new name that sounds similar….
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Oh the many benefits of reading. We book lovers could go on forever, couldn’t we? May I never take for granted to blessing of being able to read and loving to do so!
-Bekah
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Amen and Amen! Books and reading are one of my most favorite subjects ever. Words are wonderful little things. 🙂
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