I've been reading less and less over the years. I don't think I've finished an entire book since the pandemic. When a book is bad, I get bored quickly or even fall asleep. When the book is good, I have to stop and look up every two sentences. Needless to say, technology has turned my brain to mush.

Do you have a specific time dedicated to reading? Was there a time in your life when you read more or read less than you do now? I think people are either readers and non-readers. I know people who are always reading something, and they've been that way since they were toddlers looking at picture books. Most people, though, have never read a book in their lives.

>>24577354 (OP)
You read every day anon. Sometimes your own thoughts are more important than listening to anyone else

i once read fowlers modern english usage cover to cover now i'm reading the kings english on gutenberg

>>24577354 (OP)
maybe you just need to back up a bit
>>24577354 (OP)
I tend to read ezpz fiction in waves
the harder stuff I tend to only make mental room for on, like, Saturday or Sunday nights
like, I’m out of my depth for <https://passage.press/products/awh> but I want to finish it and maybe I’ll get a feel or something for early 20th-century (civil) warfare
>When the book is good, I have to stop and look up every two sentences
If you’re actually pausing and chewing on what you’ve just read you’re likely doing way better than the rest of us
A lot of my pleasure reading is basically “in one eyeball and out the other”
the big thing to worry about is if you keep at it like on a daily basis and _don’t_ increase your endurance

You open a book and read the words on the page from left to right starting from page one until you reach the final page.

>>24577354 (OP)
Yes I suffer from same problem. When I read I can only hold one or two sentences in my brain before they are chased away by new sentences, and so each one or two sentences are the first of the book, in my view, and the rest lie heaped on the floor like spent ammunition, only their spent state is a lie, for if I turn and inspect them their cartridges are intact.

Internet has ruined our brains.

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>>24577354 (OP)
you have to get used to reading again. Read a bit every day, let's say at least an entire chapter at once to build the habit. Be sure to focus on the book, if you find yourself thinking about something about your personal life, restart the sentence. If you don't know what the last paragraph said, read it again. You have to immerse yourself in the book, only then will you appreciate it.
On the topic of books, read something that you like. Don't read something complicated just because you imagine that it's more serious, more smart. Read something you like, that entertain you and that doesn't bore you.
Eventually you'll get used to reading again but you have to practice and get used to it. I recommend that you pick up something you used to like, let's say SF, and read 1 chapter every day.

I personally got back into reading thanks to Mishima's Confession of a mask.

>>24578920
Thanks friend