IMHO books are one place where you can reflect yourself, extend your imagination and look beyond the obvious. You learn a lot about life, and things that make y

IMHO books are one place where you can reflect yourself, extend your imagination and look beyond the obvious. You learn a lot about life, and things that make you what you are. But books aren't something where you can understand what goes around you. Also books are not the best preachers, though there are exceptions to this one. Book can be a mirror but not a light. Now comes the case of understanding the present. When things are so damn fast, when you can do what not by just a click of button, i doubt book can even catch up with it. You might have often heard undergrads saying that the books are heavily outdated, as technology is much advanced now a days. This is in fact true. If you want to learn whats happening now in present, and want to be informed, or want to read something interesting, i would suggest that you read blogs, go through the forums, reddit, see some suggested pages that you like on stumbleupon. Its just that what you read totally and completely depends on what you want to read.