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“He that loves reading has everything within his reach.” William Godwin

(1756-1836) British writer

Since you are reading this page you are trying to make up your mind whether or not you want to purchase one of our E-Books. The cover has attracted you, so you have decided to open the book and browse. As for the question do you want to purchase this book? My answer to you is “Yes.” It is a resounding yes. Yes you want to purchase this book because reading this book will change your life. Reading is an activity like none other. The consequences of reading are extraordinary just as the consequences of not reading are extraordinary where you will live your life in darkness. You can sit before an orchestra where the music will thrill you to passion and for a while your spirit will soar. You can turn the radio on in your car and the music will carry you away but there is nothing like reading. Reading will not only transport you to another place and time reading will change the circumstances of your life forever. Reading will carry you to the future where you will see possibilities and reading will allow you to visit the past where you will see potential.

Music provides a temporary high for your relief from your surroundings whereas reading can lead you to a permanent relief from everything around you. Reading can change your reality transforming you into a new person. You can read one paragraph and say “Why not?” or “Of course!” You can read one book and say “I never thought of that!” and read a second book and say “If only I had known this before…” You can see one word on the page and say to yourself “That can be me.” “I have possibilities in my life.” Once you begin reading in earnest you will realize that you can learn equally from reading about how a man failed in his life as well as how a man succeeded in his life. In fact learning how a person failed is a good road map for success, because failure always provides you with an alternative point of view.

Think of the man who decided to construct the street light, or to design the fire hydrant, or to design the light bulb. Where did these ideas come from; what was the source of their inspiration? One source of these inventions was reading. Reading allows for the accumulation of information. When this information is assimilated in the human brain an idea is born. One invention sparks another invention that sparks another great idea until finally man is raised to an enhanced state of existence. Reading provides the recipe for originality.

A man says to himself there must be a better way. He goes to a library trying to find that better way. He reads and reads and reads assimilating information looking for that better way. If he does not find that better way in the books he has read, he has still learned something. He has learned that he has to invent the better way. This time he begins to read books looking for ideas to help him as he invents. In the book Father Hunt, by Rex Stout (1886-1975), who wrote over 70 detective novels, the character, Nero Wolfe, makes a brilliant point that I will never forget regarding how an idea is born. Rex Stout wrote Father Hunt in 1968. I read the book in 1976 and I still remember Nero Wolfe’s preoccupation of how his sidekick, Archie Goodman, came up with the idea of a silver abacus being owned by Paul Revere. Archie Goodman told Nero Wolfe that he used the possible existence of a silver abacus owned by Paul Revere to gain an interview with a wealthy businessman. Paul Revere never owned a silver abacus but the possibilities of such an item triggered the imagination that allowed for the interview.

When you read you can learn to eat healthy and to better manage your money and life. Reading allows you to quickly prepare for a dinner party or help you impress a friend. When you read you are open to adventure and confidence bathes your spirit. Reading is the commencement of light and the cessation of darkness. Reading is the activity that puts the soul to take flight. If you desire a change in the status and wealth of your life, then reading is an activity that you can ill afford not to do.

Gloria G. Lee