[Gooblebrai]

I never cease to be surprised with the attempts to make everything productive nowadays. Of course, everyone can do whatever they want but it seems to me a symptom of how society works nowadays that instead of just enjoying the act of reading and remembering whatever details impact us, we obsess with being able to retrieve information from them

[jbstack]

This assumes that the main purpose of reading is always enjoyment. Often that is not the case; we read because we require the knowledge contained in the book for our work. The converse of only engaging with a book on an emotional level and retaining only those details which are interesting is forgetting those parts which were difficult/boring but useful.