Rewind a couple years back, I was really a sucker for "Buying the Books" and having to carry them with yourself All-The-Time!
Not so much anymore 'cos basically anything that I might possibly run into has already been solved and documented on some forum on the Internet, To quote Sherlock Holmes " There is nothing new under the Sun", then why would I burden myself with so much physical luggage.
Yes, I do understand that the feeling of a book in one's hand might seem more real and if I am doing some non-technical reading - I'd definitely look for a physical book as well. But, from what my experience so far speaks, it's that most technical books are like written Sheet Music, of course you care going to benefit if you read it all thoroughly, personally I am more of a learning-by-doing kind, I need to play out that Music on an actual Instrument.
I need to do experiments to learn something, I need to make silly mistakes to learn and I need to be able to feel what a understanding of the subject would look like!
For the Programming, Mathematics and Physics related books, I very much prefer to have them in a digital format and, of course, a good internet connection to overcome the speed-breakers that I often run into.
Not so much anymore 'cos basically anything that I might possibly run into has already been solved and documented on some forum on the Internet, To quote Sherlock Holmes " There is nothing new under the Sun", then why would I burden myself with so much physical luggage.
Yes, I do understand that the feeling of a book in one's hand might seem more real and if I am doing some non-technical reading - I'd definitely look for a physical book as well. But, from what my experience so far speaks, it's that most technical books are like written Sheet Music, of course you care going to benefit if you read it all thoroughly, personally I am more of a learning-by-doing kind, I need to play out that Music on an actual Instrument.
I need to do experiments to learn something, I need to make silly mistakes to learn and I need to be able to feel what a understanding of the subject would look like!
For the Programming, Mathematics and Physics related books, I very much prefer to have them in a digital format and, of course, a good internet connection to overcome the speed-breakers that I often run into.
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