I want to learn how to play the piano but I dont want to want to take any lessons. I have a keyboard that I can practice on. What are some good books to buy. What do I need to do in order to read music and learn proper technique. Thanks.
You won’t like this but I will give you the hard truth unlike the other "answers" on here. You can’t. You will never learn to play piano without lessons. Those books/videos teach you nothing but pressing notes on a keyboard and I use teach quite loosely. To play piano, you need to learn technique which you can not just pick up from a book. You will never pick up effective fingering techniques from a book. Shaping and phrasing is completely out of the question. I know this is not what you wanted to hear. If you truely want to learn piano then you need a teacher.