It’s not that I don’t like it, I like it, it’s just that I’m too used to TV shows and movies with music, which is a bit unusual, although interesting in its own way, it’s just that I find it difficult to enjoy the events in the text, there are no pictures, no character voices, and when I try to revive it in my fantasy, I get tired quickly.

Don’t force yourself to read. And I say that as an intensive reader. Reading should not feel like a chore or something someone has to do. It’s not homework. It needs to remain fun, engaging, and exciting.

I found a pretty interesting web novel and I like to read without forcing myself, but I’m a little bit used to imagining how everything happens without sounds and pictures, which is probably one of the problems. I want to read, but fatigue makes itself felt.

Let reading slowly become a habit, let it become progressively stronger in your activities. It’s a muscle one needs to exercise. Exactly like one would develop any new skill, progressively. No one ever learned to walk by running a marathon ;)

I’ll take note, it’s just that I really liked the web novel that I’m reading now and I want to read more, but it doesn’t work, as I mentioned in the post.

Try to make walking as much of a habit as reading. For me, it’s a great help to reflect more calmly on what I have just read. Thinking about the book you’re reading is at least as important as actually reading it and, sadly, is very often overlooked (books being binge read without much time left in-between to let our brain assimilate them what we just read. That part is so important in my own reading that, no matter the type of book I’m reading, I always read pen in hand to take notes and then re-read those notes/reflections to help me summarize the book and my impressions of it.

I think you are right here, walking really helps, even if not always, for example, it has never saved me from depression, but still thanks to walking I feel a little better.

Let reading slowly become a habit, let it become progressively stronger in your activities. It’s a muscle one needs to exercise. Exactly like one would develop any new skill, progressively. No one ever learned to walk by running a marathon ;)

I read from the screen because I’m used to it, sometimes I try to read paper books, it’s easier to read them, but the problem seems different, perhaps because I’m used to diving too deep into the story, imagining everything that happens on the go, including the smells and voices of the characters? I don’t know, maybe I’m trying to keep too much information in my head and can’t calmly enjoy the text?

I read from the monitor screen, since the books that interest me cannot be bought in stores, except online, but I don’t have much extra money for purchases in 2026, and I am already used to it, sometimes I read paper books that I have at home, and yes, it is a little more convenient and pleasant to read, but it is still difficult for me to read more than two thousand words a day, Sometimes it seems to me that the problem is either that I’m too immersed in the story, or I’m trying too hard to keep the picture in my head through the text.