Books make the speaker feel like she is somewhere else.
Explanation:
From the excerpt, the writer described those books as another world, just waiting at his fingertips. We can deduce from this that the speaker feels that books transport him to another world even though he was still in his residence.
Indeed, books have the ability to open our eyes to the culture of people far away from us, thus helping us to understand why, and how they do things a certain way.
