Can books change lives? I agree with the question that books a=can change the lives. There are several things that can be learnt by the help of books. Books have been around for centuries but for much of that time they were not available to the common person. Only the upper classes or monks and scholars were able to read. Books were very expensive and had to be copied by hand. It was not until the invention of the printing press that books and especially the Bible, became cheaper and more widely available. In this day and age ...