There’s a lot of value within technical books for Data Scientists. Do not ignore the value that can be obtained from good old traditional textbooks.
Although the visual and online methods of learning are useful for Data Scientists, there is still value in exploring traditional textbooks and technical books.
The main advantage of technical books over other learning methods is the amount of detail and rich information packed in several hundreds of pages. I’ve used technical books to learn general Data Science, deep learning on edge devices, algorithms, programming languages and more.
The article below expands more on the benefit of technical books.