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by Cthulhu_ 1873 days ago
Realize that a lot of books are just long versions of blog posts; see if the author has a blog, skim their posts.

It depends if you want to acquire broad, general knowledge or deeper detailed knowledge though. For the former, skimming blogs and the internet; for the latter, you'll need to study instead of just read / skim.