Steve, you mentioned in the post the problem with finding a reason to read textbooks. I love to understand new things (or old things in new ways, or better ways), but that's also a very vague intention. Clearly, most of what I'm learning about won't be used in my life or career after this -- unless I become a nuclear physics researcher or a practising chemist or anything like that. So I can't see any specific reasons that I want/need to read textbooks such as improving my behaviours or having new knowledge to apply directly to my life. The actual information isn't important, it's the learning itself that's important.
Can you, or anyone else, offer some suggestions? I'm a keen learner, but I just find it hard to learn from reading dry textbooks. I love classroom-tutorial-dicussion-argument based learning, and it's been quite a shock to come to uni and find that part of the learning has basically vanished.
Oh, and I've ordered the Photoreading course. I could just afford the Classic one with the discount. Thanks for bringing the discount back, Steve!
Thanks everyone,
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