/jp/ - Otaku Culture

Hey DJT I need some advice, I'm short on free time and I don't want to waste my time on inefficient learning methods.
I hope you can help me answer these questions.

1.What's the best way to get sufficient kanji knowledge?

While grinding core in the past, I noticed that after seeing lots of vocab that uses a certain kanji, you kinda get a feel for that kanji.
When I saw a new word containing said kanji, I often knew what it meant and sometimes even knew which reading to use as well.
This made it hell a lot easier to pick up new vocabulary.

I tried doing isolated kanji studying via Kodanshas Kanji Learners Course, but considering the time spent, the result was rather underwhelming. (only did 1/4 of the book though)

Does reading and mining a lot of words help? Can I passively learn more kanji by encountering many words in the wild and is that a efficient way?
I mean it does sound efficient indeed since reading improves vocab, grammar and perhaps kanji knowledge all at once, but couldn't a solid foundation prior to consuming a lot help you even more?

KKLC didn't work for me, are there other methods or approaches to get a feel for kanji?


2.Reading

When reading via texthooker or furigana, I noticed that I often hover over words that I should've recognized or read the furigana before even trying to read a word by itself, I think I harm myself by reading like that since every word I pick up and keep in my memory while reading, is a word less I have to grind in anki.
I just feel like I don't learn enough while reading, I read a chapter that has a few new words in it and the day after it's gone.

Yeah I could mine all of them, but anki already cuts massively into my reading time as it is.

What do DJT?