Do you have any thoughts about how to read some of the next step books like Engineering a Compiler/Dragon Book? I don't normally read large technical books end to end so I'm curious how others approach it. I am going through Crafting Interpreters right now and I like how it has well defined checkpoints that help me know that I can move on when I understand the current material. I skimmed Engineering a Compiler and it looks like it has exercises as well, do you recommend all/some of those, or any other methods?

Also I did some searching to see past discussions of Engineering a Compiler and found this interesting comment thread from Bob Nystrom for anyone interested: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21725581