Online chess gives all the formidable opportunity to play dozens of games every week.
Plus, there is a free analysis tool.
This can do the job, provided you do analyse your games and avoid doing a sloppy job with it, to learn by practice all the tricks and traps of any opening.
So, studying openings can easily be considered a waste of time.
As for tactics, once you know what's a fork, what a discovery check, etc, it's a thing you do while you play, not a thing you know.
What's left? Middlegames and Endgames. These are the things to study, learn and know, in order to improve your understanding of chess.
Of course, like many others, I can't recommend blitz or bullet games. Daily and Rapid are what anyone wanting to learn should practice.
As far as the game goes, I'm at a basic level, I understand forks, skewers, pin's, discover attacks and the main idea behind them. I also know that some of them present themselves more often than not on certain openings and following certain lines depending what you are playing and other times they may pop during a game when you make what you consider to be your best move, but like I said, I'm in the early stages so I haven't gone into it really deep.
I've tried some of the checkmate patterns as well, like King and a Rook, or King and Queen, or Rook Pair, but since they are so many of them I know its going to take time before I master them all, I'm putting as much time as I can into different areas in this learning journey.
As far as analyzing my games, well between learning the game and learning how to use the tools provided, well let's just say that I'm focused more on the game at the moment and that I do struggle with analyzing my games. I don't have premium so when I play, I try to pick the game that I think has the more educational value for me and analyze it to see where things went right or where they went wrong.
I know every time I answer I keep saying the same thing, but once again thank you for taking the time to help me out by sharing your knowledge, I really appreciate it.
There is plenty of bad advice in this thread from players who know the game, but who have no experience teaching beginners. Of the books you named, they are either not aimed at beginners or were written as a scam by an author who does not know the game (I recognize one title as one I gave a one-star review on Amazon).
Get a copy of Ilya Maizelis, The Soviet Chess Primer and study it carefully all the way through.
If that is too much work, get a simpler and time-tested book: Jose Capablanca, Chess Fundamentals. You can even read it free online: https://chesstempo.com/chess-books/chess-fundamentals/book/165 Capablanca's approach is the right one. Learn checkmates, endings, tactics and middle game planning, then opening principles. Repeat this cycle.
There is some excellent advice and book recommendations from an experienced teacher at http://chessskill.blogspot.com/2021/01/advice-for-beginners.html
The first book you mention wasn't on my radar, and it seems that a lot of people have suggested Capablanca so I'll start with these two and see how it goes. I'm really overwhelmed with the amount of people that took the time to read this post and share their knowledge, and I'm nothing but thankful to all of you, especially since I know that beginner questions like this can pile up pretty quick. So once again, thank you!