If you just want to learn new ideas, do you also want to retain them? Or is reading merely a throw-away entertainment experience?
How much of the knowledge that you've learned has been retained? Why did you retain some parts and not others? What about the parts you retained was important to you? Why were those parts important?
These questions will help you get more clear about your purpose for reading.
It's perfectly valid to read a book for entertainment or general interest purposes, fully expecting that you won't retain most of it. I tend to find, however, that PhotoReading doesn't work so well in such cases.
YMMV. |