This is so true! I have found many textbooks very hard to work through. One you somewhat master the subject, the book seems exceedingly clear and you wonder why

This is so true! I have found many textbooks very hard to work through. One you somewhat master the subject, the book seems exceedingly clear and you wonder why you ever struggled. One thing that helps enormously in math is to have to hand in exercises to check your understanding. Making these exercises together (over a few beers, for example) helps to have some confirmation, reference, and fun. I have learned real analysis by using the provided lecture notes. They were maybe 200 pages and I think this works better to get a grasp on the subject than using a textbook. If you use a textbook with 500 pages, you probably gonna skip or forget 75%. Lecture notes can be better tailored towards the background of the students and the contents of the course. Also, I think an hour per page is a little long, but it just depends on the density of the textbook you're using. Last thing, good luck, try to find a partner to work on problems, and don't despair: you might feel stupid at times but analysis is just hard.