I would like books to give a small bit of xp too. I've certainly been conditioned to go yay whenever I find a book or other text in games.
I also wish that in-game books (as opposed to letters and scraps of papers and things) were valuable goods at least worth more than just one measly bit. It feels so wrong to find a book and it's not something you'd want to keep to sell, like they were all shitty penny novels from a newspaper kiosk. Books in a medievalesque setting should be treasures, or at least treasured.
