If you want to be a well-rounded human being capable of holding a conversation on a variety of topics, you need to be a reader. Your reading material needn’t be any serious subject matter for you to pick up some tidbits of information that can come in handy someday.
I have never met a well-read person who is not also an interesting person. But I’ve come across quite a number of boring people who clearly never open a book.
Besides, the more knowledge you have, the better equipped you are to handle many of life’s challenges.