Getting started in 2024

I am a former frequent poster who stopped playing poker regularly in the summer of 2019. My claim to fame was my 4-year-anniversary post:

https://forumserver.twoplustwo.com/32/be...

I have a 6-year-anniversary post about the NLHE shortstack strategy too.

Anyway, I have a friend who insists she wants to start playing no-limit-hold'em at the casino (winstar in Oklahoma in our case). I'm trying to talk her out if it hahaha but she's insisting she has the bug.

I'm definitely going to recommend she start with the short-stack strategy. I hope she listens to me LOL. And of course while she's not in hands (which will be a lot!), that she pay attention to what people are limping with, raising with, betting and raising with postflop etc. just to get an idea.

How are the US-facing internet sites nowadays? Is the level of play even at 2NL still light years ahead of anything we'd see at live $1/$2 or $1/$3?

What books are the "flavor of the month" nowadays? I remember really liking Ed Miller's "The Course". Blackrain's Crushing the Microstakes was good IMHO, and I think I remember feeling like Harrington on Cash Games and David Sklansky's No Limit HoldEm Theory and Practice were good for getting into cash games.

I'll go ahead and pause there. Any other choice words of wisdom I should give my friend other than "Make sure she has a bankroll set aside not needed for absolutely anything else" and "be very very patient, it takes a long time to build up the skillset necessary to beat live $1/$2, and the variance can be off-the-charts crazy?"

Thanks
DTXCF