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Agreed. The OP says,

> It's often said that the internet has democratized education: the sum of human knowledge is only a Google search away!

Mediocre to bad information is a Google search away (unless it's Google Scholar). Generally speaking, the published knowledge is orders of magnitude more valuable; don't waste your time and pollute your thinking on what you find on the open Internet.

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To be fair, I've skimmed a lot of tech books that were absolute trash. I would say the level of quality on blog posts and books are about the same; it's just easier to filter out trash books by reading reviews (unfortunately, I've worked in a lot of niche areas where it didn't matter what the review score was for a book, I just needed some resource to push me further).

I'm not referring to every book and every blog post. My point is that there are books, easily found, that are far, far beyond any blog post.

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