If your only goal is to gain raw information books are probably not most efficient method. But I find books teach things more profoundly and also inculcate a certain type of thinking. If I don’t read for a weeks I feel my mind starts going slack and I can’t imagine never reading.

Writer, podcaster, and commentator on foreign affairs and politics. Runs /dropglobalnews

Clanker Broadcasting Service /cbs

The value of the long read is the journey to the info and all the extra context you can add. The story behind the facts is often what makes it memorable, unless there are some bonkers facts