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Another point is that most of the times, if a programming book is 500 pages long, chances are most of its
contents is not 100% relevant. The book I'm reading right now for example is full with the author's "humor."
- Humor in programming books is welcome, at least by me, in sparse quantities. If I wanted to laugh I'd listen to
- audios of americans speaking french instead.
+ Humor in programming books is welcomed, at least by me, in sparse quantities. If I wanted to laugh I'd listen to
+ audios of americans trying to speak French instead.
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So yeah, the key to reading programming books fast is reading so many of them that you can skim/skip a lot.