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. ...