Because woman and even men will drop you like a bad habit if you can't read. A big red flag.
Why reading is important?
Reading is good for your mind because it keeps your mind busy and if you read it can help you on your writing skills incase you ever want to write a story.
Telepathy is not used by all as yet
in this century.
Dear Anonymous,
What I love about reading is that you can experience the lives/knowledge/insights of another person.
Here is how Lord Dunsany (1878-1957), a founder of the fantasy/SF genre, described the wonders of ink:
“How it can mark a dead man’s thoughts for the wonder of later
years, and tell of happenings that are gone clean away, and be a voice for us out of the dark of time, and save many a fragile thing from the pounding of heavy ages; or carry to us, over the rolling centuries, even a song from lips long dead on forgotten hills.”
That is why reading is important to me, in addition to Megan Goodgirl's fine answer.
It is a way of communicating . If people couldn't read sites like this would be useless.
It helps us to grow our thinking ability.