Yes. Some many times, some one and done. Some for understanding history, how things got to be how they are, _why_ things got to be how they are. Smalltalk, f

Yes. Some many times, some one and done. Some for understanding history, how things got to be how they are, _why_ things got to be how they are. Smalltalk, for instance. Others to learn a new thing. The Rust Programming Language was my latest. Books used to be the way that knowledge was transferred. A lot of that went away with the Internet: Stack Overflow, MDN, cppreference, etc. But I still find that I learn differently reading a book than I do walking through an online tutorial.