[luckyandroid]

Programming books are generally technical documentation, or close enough - of course they're boring to read. There's so much detail to programming you could spend the rest of your life reading documentation and feel like you barely scratched the surface.

The article suggests identifying the reason you want to read it. In your case, you should identify what kind of problem you're trying to solve (even if not in an actual project and just in your head, something like "how DOES a cloud server work?") and then get that specific knowledge out of the book, as deep as you want to go.

Programming books can be expensive though, so you should generally google overviews of what you're looking for before committing to a whole book.

If you're having to read the thing for work, I guess identify what the problem at work/school you're trying to solve (or what project you'd be applying it to) and regularly relate back what you're reading to what you would do with it practically.