Yup.
Me too.
Only ever BOT.
But this is going back a long time, and back then (mid 80's) either the other books didn't exist or I didn't know about them. No internet then!
I read widely on the subject of magick.
both Crowley and other authors.
And plenty on ancient religions and philosophys.
I don't know how other peole would see my interpretations of the cards, or if they would agree with my understanding of the deck.
But somehow, over the last 20 odd years me and it came to a working compromise between us.
And it's OK, for me.
To be honest I never had the need to comprehend every single word of the BOT. I mostly get the gist of it, and for me that's good enough.
As the years have gone by I find that my understanding of the book has increased, and in some cases chnged.
Wether I do, or did, or ever will, quite understand it in the way the author intended is open to question.
However, there is a philosophical school of thought that states that it is the reader that creates a book, and that the book is created afresh in each individual understanding from each and every reader.
And that will do fine for me.
Another thing that I always found very interesting was the LWB with the stuff by Harris in it.
To see her (albeit tiny) discriptions of the cards as she saw them is, for me, a very interesting and informative thing.