Want to sleep better, be smarter and more empathetic? Try picking up a book. There’s a lot more between those pages than just stories. Were you once a voracious reader, but life got in the way? Do you long for the escape that comes with reading a good book? Or do you just feel that reading is a chore, not something you’d do for fun?

If you answered “yes” to any of those questions — and you’d like to get back to books — now is the perfect time to do it. Because “now” is always the right time to get back to reading. (If you think you don’t have time, check out this article, “In the Time You Spend on Social Media Each Year, You Could Read 200 Books.”)