[o2l]

Question : Why would people (these days) be motivated to spend time on reading about a subject slowly as opposed to trying to read short targeted content (blogs/tutorials) quickly and jump into the practical bits?

May be it's just me and the kind of people I have been meeting who do not seem to have as much patience and time and would prefer getting hands-on experience quickly.

I can see how I might sound complaining about going through ~30 pages of information whereas full books with several hundred pages take much longer to read and this is relatively much shorter.

[sarchertech]

People read books because grabbing bits and pieces from blogs and tutorials often means that you end up with holes in your understanding that you don't know are there. Books are also a nice place to start when you don't even know what blog posts to read.

Tutorials are great if you want to learn how to use library X. I prefer books if I want to understand the problem that library X solves. Of course that's a sweeping generalization.