I support Heteronym's idea. I feel that the average educated person, whether student, pensioner, or somewhere in between, does not read simply novel after novel in one gallop, but occasionally reads books about history, the various sciences, music, arts & crafts, politics, non-literary biography, religion, gardening, philosophy, travel, technology, architecture, the environment, D.I.Y., and other specialist subjects, or layman's simplified guides to same.
I can see no cons.