I use documentation a lot but reading from cover to cover?
Impractical for everything but if some tool is your bread and butter, it's a good idea.
I read the whole TurboPascal and Delphi manuals, the former in college, the later when I bought the first version as soon as it was released. Best time investment ever, for me.
It helped that they were very well written. Later, pressing F1 you had a summary and useful sample programs that you could cut and paste into the IDE. But having read the manuals from cover to cover gave me another insight: knowing what was possible.
When I joined online forums to get additional help, I found myself answering instead.
Impractical for everything but if some tool is your bread and butter, it's a good idea.
I read the whole TurboPascal and Delphi manuals, the former in college, the later when I bought the first version as soon as it was released. Best time investment ever, for me.
It helped that they were very well written. Later, pressing F1 you had a summary and useful sample programs that you could cut and paste into the IDE. But having read the manuals from cover to cover gave me another insight: knowing what was possible.
When I joined online forums to get additional help, I found myself answering instead.