I'm the author of this blog post. If you want to talk more or ask specific questions on problems you have or how to do certain things with the Less or grid, post it here or on the disqus comments on the article and I'll answer every question I get.
Is it a big undertake to read all of bootstrap to understand how it does everything? should I read the css or less files? having only finished reading a book about HTML and CSS.
I'm not the author, but if you want to learn how something specific about Bootstrap works, i'd recommend inspecting a page with the browser's dev tools. You can immediately see which styles apply to each element, its paddings and margins, and play with the classes' style values and see how they affect its positioning: http://imgur.com/ZzkF0Jb.png
This approach has helped me a lot in understanding how many of Bootstrap components work, and why they are structured the way they are :)
