You are not a machine. The construction and maintenance of your inner world matters to your spirit/ soul. You will be better and stronger with a defined sense of self and an active mind. Like all things, books can be abused, but an elimination of all life's pleasures in search of perfect utilitarianism is communist, and we aren't jews so that's not acceptable
Our ancestors did perfectly fine without books and reading.
It is a myth that books are magical intelligence machines capable of building civilization. Or that they are entertainment devices necessary to the human condition.
I'll reccomend a fun fiction book a lot of you guys have probably already read, The Brigade by HA Covington. It's about
a white nationalist revolution to claim the northwest as an ethnostate.
I can't tell you much without risking spoiling the story.
It's a modern classic.
A father, his son and some friends go for a motorcycle ride. That's all you need to know.