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human
Does anyone NOT get bored when they read textbooks?

I'm an undergrad in my first year, and so far have been able to avoid cracking textbooks for the most part, since I can rely pretty much on my professors lecture notes, and Youtube videos, but I'm aware that the time will come when this will not be enough.

Every time I do open a technical textbook however, my eyes almost instantaneously glaze over and a wave of boredom and apathy washes over me even when it's a subject which genuinely interests me. Papers sometimes have this effect but they're more skimmable and I'm usually searching and only reading papers which specifically pertain to some kind of goal I have, so I feel more motivated to get through papers than textbooks.

Textbooks typically have a progression you're supposed to follow, so they're tough to skim. I mean, I can skim them, but I'm left feeling like I didn't really get anything out of that exercise. But textbooks I know are necessary for building up a foundation of knowledge that can be used later as scaffolds for papers and things.

So has anyone found a way to successfully digest textbooks to extract and retain their knowledge in as painless a way as possible?
gpt
Find a discipline you really enjoy - textbooks may still be dry, but hopefully you'll care less. And once you pass intro level courses, they tend to be replaced by monographs and articles, so it won't last forever.