Learning from Books

[Jdeadevil]

Just wanted to create a thread about this, but does anyone else have issues with text-books and how useful they are? I buy text-books all the time expecting to walk away having digested every piece of information the book offered, but normally I get lazy and quit. If someone looked at my collection of books, they'd think I was some sort of computer genius bordering on meditation guru. I have books on programming, lucid dreaming, astral projection, graphic design, industry backgrounds, law of attraction and creative writing. But the thing is, I'd say I have experience and a fair amount of knowledge of those subjects because I've mainly researched them on the Internet through a load of Google searches and taking part in Internet forums, most of which I have no motivation to do anymore. The last book I had the dedication to read through to the end was a book called The Power, and the only reason I managed it was because it was incredibly repetitive (half of the word count were lists, as fillers), had an incredibly simplistic vocabulary, and felt like I was reading fiction.

When it comes to books, I just have no motivation to stay dedicated to it. My newest addition to the collection is a French learning book which is 720 pages and covers Grammar, Verbs and Vocabulary, but if I studied two pages a day I'd be done in six months. And that's assuming I retain that information every single day. Mostly I forgot what I've learnt from each subdivision after I progress to the next, and usually it leads me to giving up.

Anyone else have these struggles? No matter how interested I am, I always end up giving up.

 

[Ultimaja]

Books are self-evidently more sufficient than any other source.
You know why?

Because in books, a person's entire reputation and heart is poured out unto it. Therefore, you find truth in books.