I'm reading a series that contains 9 books so far. As new books come out I like to refresh the major and minor details from past books because they come up again.


When reading a new non-fiction book I want to get as musch new knowlege out of it as I can. If for instance I had photoread the photoreading book with the purpose of leaning how to photo focus and then while dipping or rapid reading discoved that there was so much more to the book would i need to re photoread with a new purpose? I just dont want to photo read with such a myopic purpose that I miss out on new knowlege I didnt expect to be in the book.

I have a book on cisco routers.
In order to sucessfully learn this there are several things to know:
1. network basics
2. hardware specifics
3. programming
4. trouble shooting
So in order to learn fully what i need to from this book do i need to go through it 4 times? Or can my purpose be as broad as covering several topics found in a book?

If so how do I account for in my purpose things I may not expect in a book but may be critical knowlege to have or use?