'Transfix'. You keep using that word. I don't think it means what you think it means.

Use it or lose it. When most people 'read', they merely run their eyes over pages, getting little more than fleeting feelings of happiness when they find ideas that they agree with. Even those few people who try to digest every tidbit of information in a book seldom apply what they learn on a daily basis. So they quickly forget much of the information. For most people, including you it seems, reading is a diversion - nothing more.