[chubot]

One thing I've found comically underestimated is books. It's not whether the information is physical or electronic, but what actual corpus of information is available.

There is A LOT of information in printed books that is not on the Internet.

There was a project to put all books on the Internet -- Google Books -- but that famously got tied up in lawsuits.

As a result, if your information diet consists of the Internet and not books, you're missing out.

I occasionally write something "obvious" from a book on my blog, and people are like "wow how did you figure that out" ?

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For what Knuth is doing, he certainly doesn't need to read much on the Internet. Most of it is in books, or at the Stanford library (or whichever library he goes to).

He's probably so busy with books that the Internet seems UNINTERESTING.

If you want access to newer publications, the Internet is more efficient, but those are also available to the library. (Sadly, Scihub is the best source for those without university access.)

So yeah I'd say 3 main repos of knowledge are: the open Internet, printed books, and Scihub, and many people today only use the first one.

[superb_dev]

I've been getting deep into computer graphics recently, and having a handful of in-depth books on the subject has been immensely helpful. I don't have to spend time scouring terrible google results for answers when I don't even know the question

As an aside, ThriftBooks has been amazing for increasing my collection! I;ve gotten so many books for cheap

[chubot]

Yeah exactly, on top of the library, I buy old used books online, and they're dirt cheap, and dense with knowledge

No ads lol!

It's honestly sad to me when I see people scrolling through terrible web pages with tiny morsels of information, which are often "interested" or wrong.