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What an interesting question, rhadin.
1. Delia Smith and Elizabeth David taught me how to cook quite well.
2. Descartes and Jean-Paul Sartre got me interested in philosophy and were partly responsible for my entering academic life.
3. But the most significant recent change was buying the Sony Reader. Yes, I know it's a reading device, so not technically a book. But it caused my to try and convert my library of public domain books; led me to this forum (where I spend far too much time, though that's not a complaint) and to developing new skills on the computer. And I've met a lot of interesting people here.
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