Not realising that it was something called National Coding Week this past week - I started seeing Tweets from Ridgeway (a company I used to work with) where each day a different one of their developers would answer the following three questions...
Okay, so don't take the subject line too seriously, as I love books and reading. But as far as learning new technologies are concerned, which would you rather do: spend large chunks of your time reading massive manual-like books ...OR... sit back and watch an expert in their field show you how it's done? Words and screenshots don't even begin to compare with watching an expert explain and demonstrate it in a video.