I used to read a lot of books but now it is hard. Sometimes I can get into something and the pages fly. Often though I space out, my eyes move but I don't read the words, it's not great.
It takes discipline to return to active reading, to re-acquire the proficiency in automated reading.
> my eyes move but I don't read the words
That's also an understandable consequence of having become information scavengers, used to spend time trying to retrieve the important signal in the mass of noise. The information available in the formation years of many was structured in the essays ("careful pace") and breathing in the narrative ("flow and occasionally pick") - today facing "informational landfills" is much more common (this included, e.g., newspaper titles, with few exceptions). One should probably consciously scavenge the more loose texts, and return to a punctual reading of the more structured and reliable texts, after evaluating what kind of text one has in front - to use the type of reading that is appropriate.
