I can't think of a reason why the richest and one of the smartest men in the world would go through all that trouble just for petty "image management" (he has nothing to prove to you in terms of intellect, we all know already he's super smart. Why would he try to brag about reading lots of books? That's for losers who just want to appear "as though" they are smart) More importantly, I don't see any reason why he woudln't read these books. I've read a lot of them and learned a lot from them. Why wouldn't he want to read these?