I've been out of the tower since 83. I have read the bible cover to cover 7 times since leaving the tower.
I had never read it cover to cover in the 31 years I was a Jw. I still read the bible regularly.
I read Eccleiastes every couple of months and Psalms and Proverbs often.
I think I could find any book without looking in the index.
The bible is one way to make sense of this life. And it has good advice in Proverbs.
Thats the bible not the JW way of twisting the bible.
For me the bible is good if you keep it simple, if you try to get all complicated and try to figure
out when the world is going to end and try to use the bible to controll others it doesn't work.