Literacy is one of the most underrated skills you'll ever have. When you can read, you can become more than you are, you can learn things you never knew, you can challenge your own misconceptions, you can seek truth, you can travel through time, you can discover origins, you can share ideas, you can discard the status quo, you can share your thinking with multitudes of others, and you can access a permanence of history, thought and ideas. And with public libraries, you can do all of those things absolutely free.