Personally, i go for online tutorials. I feel that i learn better whilst looking at things on a computer and i hate the thought of having 400+ pages still to read. Another reason i like online-tutorials is because they usually cut straight to the point unlike dumb authors of a book that blabber on about useless crap (you can probubly notice by now i hate books).

Saying that, i have been using books recently for ASP.NET as i cant find good online tutorials for it (hint, hint *).

* Does anyone know of any good ASP.NET online tutorials?