Use the book to prop up your monitor so that it’s at eye level. If it’s making you lose motivation then you’re not ready to read it. I only read a computer book

Use the book to prop up your monitor so that it’s at eye level. If it’s making you lose motivation then you’re not ready to read it. I only read a computer book once I have ported a few bits of code in a familiar language to this language and read a bunch of code that other people have written. If I am still interested in the language at that point then chances are I’ll be interested in all the dark corners a book will introduce me to. Then it doesn’t feel like a chore to read the computer book. Reading a dense computer book as an introduction to a language is quite low effort which is why it’s popular imo. They are extremely detailed so you think that’s all you’ll need. It’s extremely low effort to buy the book and then it’s pretty low effort to casually leaf through it, thinking that you’re actually learning something when you probably aren’t.