[warmedcookie]

I think it depends on the student, but I think you are probably overall correct. As someone who hated reading most of my textbooks, there is absolutely no way I am going to effectively extract relevant flash card material out of them better than an LLM can. I'm going to get bored and my mind will probably wonder and start thinking about other things while I am "reading".

[watwut]

I assure you that if you have that problem, going through flashcards will be even worst. Flashcards are the most mind numbing boring way to learn.

The goal is not "to produce flashcards". The goal is to know the content. And learning off randomly selected factoids without overall structure is just dumb way to learn.