How to read more security + engineering books

<p>Ever since I wrapped up writing my own book back in 2021, I&rsquo;ve been trying to learn more broadly about other domains in security and software engineering.</p> <p>A lot of the learning came from ad-hoc googling, but I feel like one of the best ways to gain a solid foundation of a topic is to read a well-written book. So in this post, I&rsquo;d like to share what I learned about reading technical books and how to learn more from books with less time and money.</p> <h2>Affording technical books</h2> <p>First of all, one of the issues I ran into when trying to read more technical books was gaining access to the books that I wanted to read. Technical books are really expensive &mdash; averaging somewhere around 50&ndash;100 USD per book.</p> <p><strong>O&rsquo;Reilly subscription</strong></p> <p>To work around this issue, I got an O&rsquo;Reilly learning subscription (<a href="https://learning.oreilly.com/home/" rel="noopener ugc nofollow" target="_blank">https://learning.oreilly.com/home/</a>). It&rsquo;s a learning platform subscription that gives you access to a large library of technical books. Bug bounty bootcamp for example, is available through O&rsquo;Reilly. Although the O&rsquo;Reilly catalog is extensive, it doesn&rsquo;t include a lot of new publications, books that are from smaller publishers, and books that are not purely technical.</p> <p><a href="https://vickieli.medium.com/how-to-read-more-security-engineering-books-b5cb61eeee47">Visit Now</a></p>