>Hi,
>
>For several years now (maybe even longer :)) I completely cannot motivate myself to read technical books.
>I read tons of non-technical: biographies, thrillers, romance novels, non-fiction, etc. etc. But I can't make myself read technical stuff.
>I get emails of these "short" technical books from Syncfusion. They are free and succinct but I still don't even open them.
>
>Am I the only one who is that bad?

As Dragan said, they're generally awful.
Books by Deitel and our Tamar Granor are shining exceptions- to the point with great examples- but in general the level of most tech writing is terrible.
Recently I bought an E book on PHP.
That author would lead you through a torturous example and then after I had spent several hours with it he'd say "That's one way to do it, but not the best way"