A note on reading books

I’ve not been a good book reader for some time now. At some point, I developed a self-defense mechanism against reading long books. I would say to myself, “The author is just trying to make a buck, instead of writing a blog, he/she produced 300 pages that I’ll now have to waste my time on”. The only books I’ve read are recommendations from some old Reddit comments, where I found a whole thread of…