Why read?

"Do you know why books such as this are so important? The magic is in what the books say, how they stitch the patches of the universe together into one garment for us. Three things are required for understanding this book's importance.
Number one: quality of information.
Number two: leisure to digest it.
And number three: the right to carry out actions based on what we learn from the interaction of the first two."
-Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury