Creating Room to Read: A Story of Hope in the Battle for Global LiteracyThe inspirational story of a former Microsoft executives quest to build libraries around the world and share the love of books Whats happened since John Wood left Microsoft to change the world? Just ask six million kids in the poorest regions of Asia and Africa. In 1999, at the age of thirty five, Wood quit a lucrative career to found the nonprofit Room to Read. Described by the San Francisco Chronicle as the Andrew Carnegie of the developing world,