I'm usually a knowledge junky too, but sometimes when I find some extremely nice pieces of info I put'em in practice right after reading. For going vegetarian, for example, I had read that "you don't need meat to survive" one night, and in the other day I didn't eat meat anymore.
One thing to help with this reading-but-not-doing thing is learning music, because you HAVE to practice to make sure you've learn it right (points to the violin).
