Something like www.amazon.com&#x2F;dp&#x2F;0521835402&#x2F; would take me weeks to read properly, but most of the books on my list are popular science or introductory textbooks. They just aren&#x27;t that dense.<p>I&#x27;m also reading just to get an overview at the moment. I&#x27;m not following up references or carefully criticizing experiments. I just want to get an idea of what the main areas of research are and what I might enjoy studying in depth.