Communicating- 1) "Share or exchange information or ideas"
2) "pass on, transmit, or convey (an emotion, disease, heat, etc.)"
(Both from Oxford dictionary)

I do agree with IceCream on this one. Communication can occur via talking, signing, and more, like Ice mentioned. I can see where your going though, Snow. I sometimes feel there's only black and white about some ideas to make more possibly to make more sense about a certain subject. Communication can certainly be one of them in the sense that one can usually have good sorts of communication and hardly any bad ones. Sometimes, one can brush off mean words, gestures, the like, making one forget what bad communication can be.

As for the books though, I can see where your going again because I tend to think the same way sometimes. Reading can get so frustrating. Books are valuable though. They convey ideas thought by one, but maybe never thought of by another. Fathom that!