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Originally Posted by Quoth
A load of videos are just lazy presentations. Unless it's something very specialised a decent text with photos works far better. Of course that takes far more time and expertise to produce. It can be consumed at your own speed and often several properly presented stills are more informative than a video. Also reading you can take in facts at your own speed better than a commentary.
Video can be good but most seem worthless.
I search with -youtube
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For a lot of how-to things I think they're very helpful. Especially for things that require showing how to manipulate things with your hands. I taught myself how to knit (years before Al Gore invented the internet) and only learned the most basic stuff. Being able to watch someone's video can be a godsend. You can do it with step by step pictures and text but a video is much more foolproof. But I agree that most of the stuff on youtube is crap that could better be presented with text and a few pictures.