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by jauke 2359 days ago
Why?
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Some vague feeling that if it were useful, correct, refined, and thought-out enough it would be in a book or periodical.
Hmm, I see it somewhat oppositely. I find that most books are bloated and spend most pages regurgitating information I already know, where blog posts tend to present only the novel information, using hyperlinks to link to information required to understand the given post.

If I know nothing about a topic I find books to be really valuable, but for topics I'm already knowledgeable on, they are terribly inefficient.