For me, taking in information from multiple separate-yet-interrelated topics is always the best way for me to learn. I tend to have at least 7 or 8 books out from the library at once, all non-fiction, and read them nearly simultaneously. I suppose the extra activity in my mind of connecting information from source to source even while I'm reading it helps it to stick. My brain works in mysterious ways.
Gives me a giggle when I tell folks I've been reading and they almost always think I must mean novels.  Just the facts, ma'am.
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“We use our minds not to discover facts but to hide them. One of things the screen hides most effectively is the body, our own body, by which I mean, the ins and outs of it, its interiors. Like a veil thrown over the skin to secure its modesty, the screen partially removes from the mind the inner states of the body, those that constitute the flow of life as it wanders in the journey of each day.”
— Antonio R. Damasio, “The Feeling of What Happens: Body and Emotion in the Making of Consciousness” (p.28)
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