I don’t buy tech books. Ever.
If I want to learn a language I’ll go straight to code (find any simple project to do with it).
It’s my way of doing it. Might not be the best, but it works for me.
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There's "tech" beyond programming languages - for example, computer networks.
Same here, books on specific technologies are useless to me because you can learn more from the official manuals and playing with it than from someone else's interpretation of it X versions ago.
The tech books I do get are more meta, books about programming in general or design in general, things that you can't just find in a manual.