that's why I find it refreshing to read... Books. As opposed to blogs. My feed reader now has easily a thousand unread entries, because I'm also overwhelmed with their nature of "vehicle for advertising"* (sometimes advertising just themselves)
Books are authored, proof-read, and since you already paid for it, chances are lower to find this advertising feel tothe.
Absolutely - I've been rediscovering books lately. Although it is hard - the years of interneting did a number on my attention span and habits.
I used to be a voracious reader when I was a kid. That book I mentioned - the Royal Road to Romance - I remember how smitten I was by that book when I was 14. Now it felt really slow (compared to YouTube shorts) and I had trouble getting into it. But once I did, the sparks of the old excitement appeared again. Completely different feeling than after 2 hours of YouTube shorts.
Books are great but I am sure that there is a lot of content on the internet written because someone genuinely wanted to say something (and BTW, not that books written as products are that rare either). It's just harder and harder to find it.
You might enjoy The Long Ride by Lloyd Sumner -- dude set off on a bicycle with a couple hundred dollars in the early '70s and bicycled around the world.
Books are authored, proof-read, and since you already paid for it, chances are lower to find this advertising feel tothe.
* I love this expression!