> Are you saying that using Google to answer a question is more exhausting than parsing a book? That makes zero sense

My point is that we couldn't possibly do our jobs now without Google, but that we used to be able to do it just by knowing the stuff in a few books really well and knowing where—in the books or in e.g. manpages—to find what we didn't know. A small shelf of books is way better than Google, if you can be reasonably certain that the answers you need are in there.

Yes, this situation is far more exhausting.