I'll read a tutorial/blog post or the official docs to quickly get up to speed on something, and read textbooks for learning a topic in depth. The problem is I

I'll read a tutorial/blog post or the official docs to quickly get up to speed on something, and read textbooks for learning a topic in depth. The problem is I get too caught up in reading a dense textbook but forget a lot of it because I don't apply that knowledge. I'm trying to find a middle ground between reading and application.