> trick yourself to have understood it, only realizing that mistake later. Exactly. My point is that technical text is never read linearly (like a video). Re

> trick yourself to have understood it, only realizing that mistake later. Exactly. My point is that technical text is never read linearly (like a video). Reading is an active process, where you scan the whole page repeatedly for all the displayed formulas, then for apparitions on these formulas inside the text, then peek at the figure, then read some words in a paragraph while looking from time to time at the figure in case it is referenced by the text. After a few minutes you have grasped everything. At least this is how I read. Looking at a video is so passive and linear that you get bored after a few seconds.