Find books you like. Give up on ones you don’t. I get so absorbed in books I like I forget to sleep. Books I find dull can induce me eyes to have difficulty focusing. It’s ok to skip forward if you aren’t liking a chapter, there’s no test at the end.
Vary it up. I read deep technical books, classics, and serious non fiction, but I also read humorous sci-if fantasy novels directed at teenagers.
Be ok that you got distracted. I mostly read on an ereader and it’s absolutely delightful and incredible to be able to go look up a reference you don’t know or understand on Wikipedia to get context. Just make it back to your book your own time.
And finally, as others have said, just read. Preferably
just do it before or in bed.
I used to be a voracious reader, then I basically stopped and I'm now trying to get a good pace again.
"Read what you like" is the most important thing, too often one tries to read a book because someone recommended it, or gifted it, or because it's an aspirational thing ("everybody should read Ghoete's Faust").
Vary it up. I read deep technical books, classics, and serious non fiction, but I also read humorous sci-if fantasy novels directed at teenagers.
Be ok that you got distracted. I mostly read on an ereader and it’s absolutely delightful and incredible to be able to go look up a reference you don’t know or understand on Wikipedia to get context. Just make it back to your book your own time.
And finally, as others have said, just read. Preferably just do it before or in bed.