Reading has countless benefits, but paramount among them is gaining knowledge. Whether it’s about landscapes far and away, exotic cultures, history, or improving language skills, there are few more effective ways to learn than reading. Our ancestors were well aware of this, and it is no coincidence that in ancient times they put great emphasis on recording and reproducing the knowledge they gathered. The extent of this is clearly shown by the catalogue of the library founded in Alexandria, Egypt in the 3. century BC, boasting of 532,000 parchment scrolls.