Mine has been my main medium of reading books for the last 8 years. And it will easily last for more than 10 years. And honestly, it’s just better than paper books anyway. Waterproof? Backlight? Font changing? You charge literally once or twice every month so it’s not a concern at all.
I buy paper books if I really loved it. For basically anyone, IA and libgen is way, way more than what you need.
I started a community !downtherabbithole for this kinda thing but written content isn’t as easy to find as videos unfortunately. I’m like you and much prefer reading to watching. There’s at least one text link there that’s an interesting read. I think there’s a long-form community on lemmy too, that might scratch an itch?
What you're looking for seems to be blogs. Before YouTube made "vlogging" (video blogging) widespread, many people blogged with text. There's still tons of useful/entertaining blogs out there depending on your interests.
There's sites like Medium (https://medium.com) which is a fairly popular centralized service. There's even Fediverse instanced communities based on software like WriteFreely (https://writefreely.org/instances). Many just have independent blogs around the web, though.
I unfortunatly don't have a awnser but wanted to add I hate how all tech help has moved to video form. Written tutorials have then benefit of being clear and able to follow at your own pace.
Yes! Also being able to read/explore while doing other tasks like in a work meeting or on a discord call. It doesn’t require you to devote 100% of your attention.
Yeah this bugs me too. However, sometimes the key is scrolling farther down the search results. Google likes to put YouTube video results first but sometimes you can find the written instructions on a non google owned blog post past the videos.
Also, Bing (I know, I know) will break down the video and sometimes link you directly to the part of the video you need.
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