july 8 2012151 reading is an incredibly inexpensive hobby that provides so many benefits most of the time it requires little or no electricity to engage in reading so youre not burning up watts and adding to your energy bill if you read outside or in a welllit house theres no cost at all during daytime hours at night a tiny led light eating less than a watt will provide adequate light for you to read by 1000 hours of usage of such a light costs about 015 a single goodsized book will provide you with many hours of entertainment depending on the size of the book a book will take me between two and twenty hours to read a larger book naturally is at the higher end of that scale its something that will involve me over a period of timerelated can you manage your money tale our personal finance quiz alternately a single goodsized book will provide you with knowledge or enlightenment and sometimes entertainment as well a good book will make you think about some aspect of the world around you and make you reconsider that aspect a little whether its human relationships some aspect of the physical world or an intriguing new idea even better that single goodsized book can be acquired for practically nothing at your local library or used bookstore your local library has thousands of books that you can borrow for free your local used bookstore has thousands of books you can keep for just a pittance the acquisition of a book is very inexpensive particularly when you look at it per hour spent reading the book a book can be read in small pieces when you have a five minute gap or in large chunks when you have a lazy afternoon if youre waiting for a few minutes until the waters boiling for supper you can read a page or two when you have hours to burn on a cold winters day a book can be your company then too most books are incredibly portable i cant tell you the number of times ive gone somewhere with a paperback shoved in my back pocket if you carry a purse or a backpack you have plenty of room for virtually any book you might want to carry there is a nearly infinite variety of books out there so you can surely find one or two that match your interests theres a book out there for almost anything you can imagine whatever it is that you enjoy theres a book somewhere thats going to be somewhat close to your exact interest the act of reading improves your ability to absorb and comprehend written information helping you in virtually any career path there are very few jobs today that dont incorporate written information or instructions and the more you read the easier it is for you to absorb that information and execute your job better reading also improves your cultural literacy making it easier