How can someone gain experience and get out of the "beginner" status if he/she is going to avoid trading at all cost? reading alone won't help you become an experienced trader.
You either trade with air, or trade with a bankroll of 0.001 BTC just to learn.
But adrenaline is much bigger with higher stakes, and emotions are much more likely to get the better of you if you buy like 0.1 BTC or 0.5 BTC especially if you never traded before.
My point was that most traders have learnt how to trade efficiently in the stock market before getting into cryptocurrencies.