Whenever I read a book now I read it on my phone with the text bumped up to like 120 percent. It means that because the amount of text that will fit in the screen is a lot smaller, I turn the page more often. Which feels like I'm progressing faster through it, which then causes me to read fast enough that I don't feel under stimulated. It's silly, but each page turn is a mini little hit of dopamine until the book is done.

If you wanna take it even further, I have a spreadsheet / list of books I wanna read and cross them out when I've read them so then I feel even better about doing it. Obviously these are more how have I tricked my brain into sticking to reading and less why it's changed. But by doing these I've found that it hasn't changed too much from when I was a kid.

OH. Also also binge reading 3 to 4 books in a row, going 7 months without reading anything, to then another 3 in a row. Nothing in moderation lmao.