Popular Science Books Can Be Inspiring

I've been reading more than my usual number of popular science books recently, and i've gone back to re read some more. My list of favorite authors are almost all popular science writers. I've realized now that there are at least two kinds of reading one can engage in. There's casual reading, and then there's careful reading. And i've noticed this myself, because having casually read some books and then gone back and carefully read them, i spot errors i never realized first time around.