Internet has been growing ever since its launch due to the immense amount of knowledge it provides for minimal or no cost. Yeah, it’s true that internet is more powerful and quick to find and learn new things. It is undeniable. But when it comes to learning, I always loved to choose books over internet. A few reasons are discussed below.

1. Written by a Guru: Not everyone can write a book. One must be an expert to write a book. It takes a lot of time, even decades to write a book. It goes through many revisions before it gets published. Also, the new editions of each books, makes it more accurate and relevant to the present.
2. Reviewed by a publisher: Books are mainly published by publishing houses. These people are subject experts and every book go through many revisions by these people. So, if you come across some author whom you don’t know, but it’s from a good/popular publisher, the book is going to great.
3. Popularity: Only the genuine books get popular, and it is only recommended by people. But when it comes to internet, anyone can provide answers in forums or make their post at first search engine result by paying for ads.
4. The feel of paper: Even though I love my kindle to read the fiction and non-fiction books, but when it comes to learning, I prefer the physical copy over eBook. I love to underline and write points.
5. Internet is changing: Information in the books stay as it is but information on the internet is never going to be the same.
6. Books are the sources of Internet: It never the other way. Books are the source of information for all these online tutorial and courses.
7. Learn with zero distractions: Internet can be a great source of distraction while learning while books offer zero distraction.

Learning by books is a slow process. But it is reliable. There is nothing wrong in consulting the internet, it is life saver on many occasions. But depending only on internet can become unsafe at times if we don’t use our native intelligence. So, I will always choose to go with physical copies of books if I want to learn something new. That is the only reason I recently brought, Hands-On Machine Learning with Scikit-Learn and TensorFlow 2e: Concepts, Tools, and Techniques to Build Intelligent Systems, Paperback from Amazon.

Great Learning

Sreedeep