[partition]

Arthur Schopenhauer wrote extensively on this and I feel he said it best.

[Excessive reading] robs the mind of all elasticity; it is like keeping a spring under a continuous, heavy weight. If a man does not want to think, the safest way is to take up a book directly he has a spare moment.

- "Thinking for Oneself"

Contains a great quote by Pope Duncaid 3:

"Forever reading, never to be read."

Link:

https://ebooks.adelaide.edu.au/s/schopenhauer/arthur/essays/...

[spenuke]

Lewis Carroll also wrote an excellent essay using digestion as a metaphor for reading.

http://harpers.org/sponsor/balvenie/lewis-carroll.1.html

[hammerandtongs]

This was an excellent read, thanks for the link.

A great deal of nuance in the essay about doing vs thinking vs reading/consuming.