Beginner Question On Tarot, upright cards Options

So I just baught my first deck "The Rider" and a book called "The tarot:History,Symbolism,and Divination" by Robert M. Place and I have a very simple and basic question: In order to get a proper reading do all the cards have to be pointed upright and if they do turn out to be downward then what do you do?

I don't use reverse at all. I've worked Tarot for three decades, and started with reversed cards because all the RW oriented books said so, giving elaborate "indications" and so on. As I learned the cards, developed my own more intuitive interpretations (I believe everyone should develop their own Deep Mind interpretations of what the cards mean to them in a spread, and not rely on books and other people) -- I weaned myself off this erratic practice of using reversed cards. The beauty and rich symbolism of a card becomes almost impossible to interpret when reversed.

The majority of diviners, that is, my friends who use tarot strictly for divination, do read reversed cards, and only with the Rider Waite story-type cards. But most mages I know, don't. But that may just be people I know. The Tarot has always spoken eloquently to me, in a true voice, and I've never needed reversals. The mages who created most of our modern root decks (Thoth, Golden Dawn, etc) generally didn't believe in reversals. In fact, the Thoth deck can't really be used this way. When Crowley referred to ill dignified he was referring to the overall read, the other cards, the elements, not reversals. He was careful to point out that his deck was not to be read in reversals, and the design of the Rose Cross on the back reinforced this -- it's obvious you've turned a reversed card by the cross.

Reversed cards were actually invented by a divining artist in New York (his name escapes me--I could research it) as a way to confuse the too-curious. It's use doesn't go back particularly far. But, as long as you know you are reading -- or not reading -- reversed cards, a system of "blocked" or ill dignified meanings will work for you -- if you can intuit them. Personally, I mistrust the various "reversed" interpretations in tarot books. The serious books, such as DuQuette, Crowley, and so on, mention ill dignified occasionally (which doesn't refer to reversed) but not reversed cards -- for good reason. It's not really a long tradition. I also find it clouds the voice of the Tarot. The cards speak clearly to me every single time when I read the normal way, but I never get clear answers from reversed cards, personally.