I rarely read books, don't really know why... but when I do - they're either very very rare or very technical, like Micro CHIPS directories, programming etc.
Must have been the net, have been a net-dude for as long as I can remember, yep...remember my very first home made RTTY modem for the CW band when I was around 13 years old, then a 300 BPS Teletext-modem, then 75/1200, then 1200, 2400, 4800,9600,19200 (PEP), 56K, V90, Trellis, 64+64 ISDN, 128K ISDN, 2 Mbit Cable, 8/8 Mbit Private Internet...now somewhere between 12-24mbit, soon to be 60 mbit...soon to be...oh well.. you get the idea