I hope it's clear that I'm not suggesting there are no other ways to solve this problem. I just tried to pick an example of something I actually learned reading the book that arose as a consequence of things I thought I already knew but hadn't put together.
I was trying to give a sense of why, if you look at the TOC and see that it discusses topics A, B, and C that you already know, you may be very pleasantly surprised when you read the book by something you didn't know about A+B, B+C, A+C, or A+B+C.
I hope it's clear that I'm not suggesting there are no other ways to solve this problem. I just tried to pick an example of something I actually learned reading the book that arose as a consequence of things I thought I already knew but hadn't put together.
I was trying to give a sense of why, if you look at the TOC and see that it discusses topics A, B, and C that you already know, you may be very pleasantly surprised when you read the book by something you didn't know about A+B, B+C, A+C, or A+B+C.