Now-a-days, because of thinking about hobby of reading books is oldest leisure time hobby, people are not reading books almost. It does not mean that there are no book readers, still book readers are there and will be forever.
There is a benefit by reading books to us.
However close the technology, internet and television have come to us, we should not neglect reading the books. While we are watching television, our total concentration will be on only visual. Nothing will run inside of our minds, because everything is appearing on screen and in front of our eyes so there is nothing rest to happen or think inside of our mind.
The benefit of reading books is it increases our thinking power.
By reading books, we think and imagine inside of our minds, hence, our mind works. So this is the benefit which we can get by reading the books. Keep reading books and improve your thinking power of your mind.