Reading for six minutes each day can, they say, reduce stress by 68% and they also say it can help people read more fluently and many feel it is the ultimately the most relaxing of pastimes.
(all those except for those who go fishing of course)

Sighted people learn 83% of all they know through their eyes and reading seems to enter your brain in a more ‘solid’ form than other media. Oh I have no idea who they are.