Recently I have been trying out a pretty old phenomena by now that is called “audio books”. Well, what is it actually? It literally is just how it is called. These are audio records where someone is reading the book that you are interested in. It mostly took off after Apple released the iPod and now it is available everywhere because high-speed internet connections are attainable by the general public and services exist like Audible where you can purchase audio books and download them easily. Obviously, they let you get the same content from books that you would otherwise get by reading but it has some downsides as well. Well… what are they? I will present my own point of view after finishing almost two books in approximately 24 hours of listening. ...

Nowadays it seems like we are on an information highway and it is very hard to keep up with all the knowledge. Especially this is acute when considering how many websites there are on the Internet and how long it would take you to read and understand them all. However, there is a solution – books offer a way to get condensed information from the field experts and learn a lot of things. Many people think that this is only true for other fields except programming. But I think that is false. In software development, a lot of things are timeless as well and they do not change so often. Let me present this and other arguments in more detail, and try to convince you to pick up a programming book and read it. ...