Ask HN: If you don't read books, what do you read?
Are you reading anything?
Blogs are significantly more up to date with most technical topics. Books focused on specific technologies by contrast go out of date as soon as they are published. For example: https://simonwillison.net/ is HN's favorite blog this year.
Evergreen computer science topics don't go out of date though. (example of evergreen: https://dataintensive.net/)
I have an RSS opml of about one thousand blogs that I follow. Actually a majority of them are RSS feeds of people who have posted here in hacker news.
I also like to try to read research papers every now and then. On weekends I'll print one out and sit with a french press and pen and read through it, and it's a nice time. (Today I'm reading "Fruit and vegetable intake and the risk of cardiovascular disease, total cancer and all cause mortality" by Aune et. al 2017)
Ive been reading a lot of docs and not gonna lie it can be interesting just reading how a matrix works exactly for 3 hours straight. Ive read an article about how chopsticks where made, just those random informations you will never need again lol
I read Chinese novels that launch a couple chapters per day.
Hacker news
The internet, sadly