hehe I know you're being sarcastic and that's ok. I may be a special case but I genuinely like to read. And yes, I do recommend every one of these books because I've found something useful in each one. As for the costs, yes it can be quite expensive but to me it's just part of being a professional web developer. You have to invest in yourself. It's not something that I think is trivial as these books can be insanely expensive but again, I personally feel it's worth it to me.

While I only listed JS, HTML, & CSS books, that's solely because I'm very focused on client-side development. When I was much more into the server-side, I had an incredible library with books on ColdFusion, architecture, scalability, metrics, etc. To be honest, the number of books I listed in this post is only a small fraction of the books I rely on. I've just found the ones listed to be invaluable to me.

I just got a new book from my manager, Scott Hanselman, on ASP.NET 4 which is massive but it's on my priority list because I want to learn how to build ASP.NET web apps. Again, just part of the constant need to stay on top of things. You just have to make the time. :)

Good luck and thanks for reading my blog.