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Your question touches on 3 topics: (1) blood transfusions (2) apostate material and (3) reading the Bible. The question is cleary biased and filled with erroneous information. So before we can answer the question, we must clarify the errors first. For this reason we will start with the last topic and work back to the main topic of blood.Reading the Bible by itself is encouraged throughout our Organization, our publications, and learning materials:There are numerous articles that encourage reading the bible daily without the need of publications or commentary. (Example: Do You Allow God to Speak to You Every Day?)Our Dramatic Bible readings are downloadable recordings with voices (for characters and narration) along with sound effects and original music. No interpretation of scriptures are given. Just the audio version of the Bible passages.Our Organization offers several recommended schedules for reading the Bible everyday by itself. (Example: Schedule For Bible Reading)Viewing apostate material is not a disfellowshipping offense.Viewing apostate material is discouraged with many published articles warning against it and the resulting effects. (Example: Do Not Be Quickly Shaken From Your Reason)No publication has ever mentioned being disfellowshipped for viewing this type of material. And, more importatantly, no individual has ever been disfellowshipped for viewing this type of material.The Bible clearly shows that viewing apostate material is a matter left up to Jehovah. The Bible admonishes elders to “instruct with mildness” those that may view or study such material. Nevertheless, only God can offer any needed forgiveness for repentance of such actions. (2 Ti 2:25, 26)Advocating, spreading or indoctrinating the teachings from the material to others, advertising the sources of apostate material to others, or associating with apostate individuals, however, are disfellowshipping offenses. (Tit 3:10, 11; 1 Ti 1:19, 20)Jehovah’s Witnesses have revolutionized a whole new way of performing surgeries and medical procedures. (The complete medical protocols for handling JW patients is here, straight from the source.Before 1914, non-direct blood transfusions were not even an option. Most deaths that occurred because of refusal of blood was due to doctors refusing to operate or attempt the procedure without blood. Every JW that chose this scriptural stance was willing to sign documents not holding the doctor nor the facility responsible. Many doctors still refused, resulting in numerous deaths that were blamed on the patient, family members, and the Organization.After realizing there was a niche market for performing these operations as well as substantial savings in operating costs, the medical industry began working with specially selected elders (Hospital Liaison Committee) within the Organization to develop and provide specialized bloodless medical procedures. Many JW patients knowingly underwent voluntary experimental prodecures so as to help future patients with similar cases and conditions.Many look back on the history of blood transfusions regarding JW’s and realize that the scriptural stance we have taken is a more beneficial medical procedure. These types of procedures are becoming a more recommended solution. Advances in these procedures have minimized the chance of fatalities and other circumstantial results. Almost all deaths that result from current bloodless procedures are due to the treated condition or secondary conditions, not the procedure itself.Advantages of Transfusion-Free Medicine and Surgery – Penn MedicineBlood Transfusions Still Overused and May Do More Harm Than Good in Some Patients - 04/24/2012Doctors explore benefits of "bloodless" surgeryBloodless Cardiac Surgery: Not Just Possible, But PreferableThird party onlookers have commended our Organization for the stance we have taken. (Example: How Jehovah’s Witnesses Are Changing Medicine - A 3 part series in the “New Yorker” magazine)https://www.newyorker.com/news/news-desk/how-jehovahs-witnesses-are-changing-medicine (Part I)https://www.newyorker.com/news/news-desk/should-anyone-be-given-a-blood-transfusion (Part II)https://www.newyorker.com/news/news-desk/the-ethics-of-bloodless-medicine (Part III)If you do some proper research (go to the source) instead of believing what you get from biased websites and videos, you will learn what millions of doctors and non-JW patients around the world have learned:Every year, [Dr. Patricia] Ford treats or operates on around 700 Jehovah’s Witnesses, whose religion prohibits transfusions of blood that is not one’s own. Since 1996, she has been fine-tuning ways to give these patients the best care as well as ways to apply these techniques to the broader population. “Many physicians I talked to at the beginning had this misperception that a lot of patients just can’t survive without receiving blood,” says Ford. “I may have even thought that myself to some degree. But what I rapidly learned was you can care for these patients by just applying some easy strategies.”[1]In a study of the treatment of Jehovah's Witnesses, he [Dr. Carson] and his colleagues found the mortality [rate] was 3.2 percent, meaning that most did well without blood. But [of the 3.2 percent] one-third of the patients whose hemoglobin dropped below six grams died. Moreover, the risk of dying from low blood counts was especially great for those with cardiovascular disease, whose oxygen-distributing ability was already weak.[2]"The strategy of avoiding transfusion often termed 'bloodless surgery' should not be limited to JWs [Jehovah’s Witnesses] but should form an integral part of everyday surgical practice as more evidence accumulates on the adverse effects of blood transfusion."[3]International Training Center for Bloodless Medicine & Surgery (Medstar Health)No Blood—Medicine Meets the Challenge (video)Jehovah’s Witnesses and the Medical Profession CooperateBlood Transfusions—What Doctors Are Saying NowTransfusion-Alternative Strategies—Simple, Safe, Effective (video)Peter and Sue Schulz: A Trauma Can Be Overcome (video)Footnotes[1] What’s behind the decline in blood transfusions?[2] https://www.nytimes.com/1998/04/21/science/bloodless-surgery-gains-new-acceptance.html?ribbon-ad-idx=3&rref=world&module=ArrowsNav&contentCollection=Science&action=swipe&region=FixedRight&pgtype=article[3] International Training Center for Bloodless Medicine & Surgery