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The internet is better for factoids - for learning something, a book is a lot better, if you can get your hands on one. E.g. for a niche topic there's maybe a
by zinodaur 3y ago
The internet is better for factoids - for learning something, a book is a lot better, if you can get your hands on one.
E.g. for a niche topic there's maybe a 5 page wikipedia article, a thousand useless seo fodder blogs, and a bunch of academic papers on the topic. At the library, I can get a 300 page comprehensive text written by an expert whose motive is to actually teach me the topic.
- vundercind 3y agoSame experience here. The Web’s excellent for a handful of (important!) topics but kiddie-pool shallow for many others. You quickly run out of Web resources and have to hit interlibrary loan or books stores to keep going. It’s telling that probably the single most-valuable store of knowledge on the web is… a book piracy website. And even that’s missing tons of stuff.