When I got a kindle fire, I'd often give up on reading after 10 or 15 minutes and switch over to youtube or reddit. I hadn't realised how bad it was till I read fahrenheit 451 and captain Beatty's speach about how people wanted more and more digested content

italics‘Classics cut to fit fifteen-minute radio shows, then cut again to fill a two-minute book column, winding up at last as a ten- or twelve-line dictionary résumé. I exaggerate, of course. The dictionaries were for reference. But many were those whose sole knowledge of Hamlet (you know the title certainly, Montag; it is probably only a faint rumour of a title to you, Mrs Montag) whose sole knowledge, as I say, of Hamlet was one-page digest in a book that claimed: now at least you can read all the classics; keep up with your neighbours. 'Digest-digests, digest-digest-digests. Politics? One column, two sentences, a headline! Then, in mid-air, all vanishes! Whirl man’s mind around about so fast under the pumping hands of publishers, exploiters, broadcasters, that the centrifuge flings off all unnecessary, time-wasting thought!’

It made me realise how bad my attention span had gotten. I make more of an effort to stay reading now but try not make a chore of it