I don't understand this at all. To me, this reads as "Here are books that have been recommended to me that I haven't read. Nobody reads these." He implicitly sa

I don't understand this at all. To me, this reads as "Here are books that have been recommended to me that I haven't read. Nobody reads these." He implicitly says this himself, when he states "I've read all of these books myself, so I have no difficulty believing that many moderately competent programmers have read them as well."