New ask Hacker News story: Ask HN: I'm thinking of writing a book – Why would you want a book?

Ask HN: I'm thinking of writing a book – Why would you want a book?
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As the title says - I’m thinking of writing a book. I’m targeting a quite specific niche - Arduino on the ESP32-S3. I want to take the reader on a journey from the basic blink sketch to designing a custom PCB. This could just work as a series of YouTube videos or blog posts. But it would be nice to turn this into a physical book. What would make you actually want the book version? What value can a book have above and beyond something online? Or is a book just a nice to have thing? Should I just focus on creating the content and making sure it’s useful/valuable and treat the book as just another method of presentation?

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