Comment by metalman

Either you remember or you dont. My gut feeling is that careing about remebering is not good. Reading out of pure interest is good. Technical/text book's are generaly layed out in an arbitrary fashion, so I read them randomly, skimming, skimming, looking for the gems, these books are in fact poor representations of what is in the minds of the people who were "professing" there knowledge, and often there are books written outside of the curicula that are musings and collected essays, shorter books with much more in them, on the same subjects. or single subject encyclopedias that function as handy reference books, just so that you dont have to remember everything