Does anyone else have trouble learning something unless they

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Does anyone else have trouble learning something unless they know every detail about the subject they're learning about? Do you also have trouble learning things from a website and find it easier to learn from physical books?

For example, I have difficulty understanding something or learning a skill by reading bits and pieces of information on the internet. I only seem able to learn something by going through a textbook that covers pretty much everything within the scope of what I need to know. Especially if it involves working through problems.

Textbooks also help me remember information more easily, because I can recall a chapter in the text and remember what a specific section of it discussed. This seems harder to do with information written online, even when it is organized, because it always seems disjointed to me. Books tend to be more comprehensive and more easy to visualize when I am remembering what I read.

I also have an easier time learning from a physical book that I can hold and page through, rather than from text on a screen. Not only that, even my posture and the angle of my head seems to affect how well I can focus on a text. For example, I am better at reading from a book that I am hunched over, rather than from a pdf displayed on a monitor in front of my body.