See I am the total opposite: "read lots of books" guys are free. We flit from subject to subject, get to 90% on a variety of topics, draw connections the experts could never make, and don't get caught up in byzantine technical debates that nobody actually cares about
there's a certain melancholy to being a "read lots of books" guy, you can read five good books on a subject and probably be in the at least 90th percentile of knowledge on it, but compared to a real expert, you might as well have read zero