The caption of the photo below says: "Reading can seriously damage your ignorance."

Alternatively, reading may seriously damage one's health. One can get trapped within the symbolic order; books or the ideas contained within them can become like oppressive internal objects; smothering the self. 

The objective of reading in any field is to synthesize the information or data and to develop simple hypotheses or theories that account for the information or data.

Hazen and Trefil, 2009: "Science is organized around a limited number of concepts (or "laws") that account for everything we see in the world around us." .

Hazen and Trefil, 2009):"Newton developed compact laws that apply to an immense assortment of situations. His three Laws of Motion—like all fundamental laws that govern science—seem simple, almost simplistic. The deepest insights of the human mind often have this characteristic."