do expert programmers read lots of book?

it seems the only way to reach satori is to read lots of books I have lying around..I have K&R, Expert C: Deep Secrets, and 2 Perl Oreilly books...would an expert really have to read all these or am I just wasting my time if I dont know it magically :( ...How many programming books do expert programmers usually read in a year or a month?

and I already know what book I'm supposed to be reading..

>>33 No matter how smart you are, your paragraph was of substandard quality. Let me try to rephrase your ambiguous babble:

"We must read books or we won't know things that other people have known."

Upon reading this phrase I felt a profound sense of enlightenment.