[lmarcos]

I'm probably an outlier. I read around 15 technical books per year. I read them because I enjoy their content: beautiful books like SICP, TAOCP, Stevens' books, etc.; I can recommend them to anyone. There are plenty of tech books out there that are awfully boring though (I don't read those). Funny enough, people usually say that books like the former (the beautiful ones, the timeless ones) don't help you on your current job... Well, I couldn't care less. I don't read sci-fi to gather knowledge either. I read for fun, and this applies to tech books as well.

(I believe that timeless tech books do help you, though. They help you with your career, not with your (current) job).

[textread]

I haven't heard of the Stevens book. Would you kindly mention the book title? TCP/IP book?

[lmarcos]

Yes, that's one of them. The author is Richard Stevens.