I experienced the same: reading one book after another felt like information overload, taking notes helped a bit. In addition to taking notes, I started to sum

I experienced the same: reading one book after another felt like information overload, taking notes helped a bit. In addition to taking notes, I started to summarise chapters or the whole book. This takes significantly more time, but the effect is huge. Given the amount of great books and my limited human life style, I also sometimes have the feeling of missing something. The FOMO is a concept fundamentally tied to the human psychology. I try to reduce it by categorising my reading list into A, B and C books (where A books get my biggest attention). My policy is to read and summarise A books, speed read B books and rely on someone else's summaries for C books.