Even books have long history and plays a significant impact on mankind and now it has been observed that source to read book is different but purpose is same.
Why books?
After going through whole lot of interviews, Live interaction and of course reading books and article .One thing which I have found is that all successful entrepreneur read books .Their choices may be different like Steve jobs(late) had preferred reading books on spirituality and Elon musk prefers reading biographies. At last they all are read books you name it and you name it and you will find connection of them with books be it Warren buffet , Bill gates , Mukesh Ambani and the list goes on. If books helped them most probably help you too.
How books help?
Meditation: We read book in library or a very quite place so this quality time which you are spending while reading book is like meditation and would not be possible otherwise to sit quietly in one place.
Perspective: Book definitely changes perspective of looking at situation and biography helps a lot in this case for example after reading "Shoe Dog" The way I look at my problem has changed now my problem seems to be very small and now I am more confident handling them.
Value: The value which book provide is undermined. Someone would not prefer book because its costly and the fact is that you are getting to meet a great personality for hours(depending on length of book) which would not have been possible or would have been very costly for example 1hr of Simon Sinek lecture cost about 1,00,000$ and you are getting that at the price of peanuts in books written by him.
For those who are just starting to read here is a quote for you "Read what you love until you love to read"
For those who are just starting to read here is a quote for you "Read what you love until you love to read"