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In general having a goal to exhaut textbooks by copying them is stupid. That's not what they are for. Get rid of that strategy.
Most forums have rules that prevent you from asking questions without deeply thinking about those questions yourself.
On math.stackexchange you are allowed to ask all maths questions provided you search before for similar questions and put in the effort to write a decent question.
Asking decent questions is a skill. Learn it and people will answer your questions.
Suspected as much... but I am not sure what strategy to replace it with. I definitely plan on doing all the exercises, and sometimes if I also write down some of the theory/proofs it helps with recalling them later. I'm guessing good rules of thumb are: stick to the essentials; use common sense; review at appropriate intervals.
I'm fine at asking a question that doubtlessly won't get removed. A question. I'm not sure that asking 20 (good, rule-abiding, thought-out) questions per week in a given forum would last me very long. That's about how often I might get stuck if I do some exercises every day.
On stackexchange nobody has a problem with someone asking a lot of question provided they are good, rule-abiding and thought-out.
You can also answer questions of other people. It might even be better than textbook problem because someone well tell you when you are wrong via comments.