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Both - I read fiction books for fun as well for knowledge, but also I read serious books for educational purposes and for enlarging my scope
self teaching and teach others.
I mostly read books for teaching and research publications, and i consider research as fun :D
As compare to me I read books sometimes for fun and sometimes to gain knowledge from the books, because books are the best friends of your's. That's why we all love to read the books.
The value of reading a textbook (or, better, doing an online course) is that it gives you a baseline for examining other aspects of that field. Taking one physics course would be enough to know why perpetual motion machines are scams.
Similarly, if you’re going to read books on the financial crisis, political blogs or start investing money—maybe it makes sense to have read one book on basic economics. I find it baffling that people have complex economic and political philosophies but haven’t learned concepts like supply and demand.
Ditto for psychology. One psychology textbook will hardly make you an expert. But it will at least make you aware that truths can’t be concluded from a single study, or that generalizing from a very narrowly designed experiment is dangerous.
The point of reading at least one textbook is to give an awareness of (a) the fundamental concepts most people agree with in a field and (b) where experts disagree.
