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Submitted by mikloved t3_10shi0t in books

I don’t know if this will make sense at all. I use to be an avid reader, until I graduated and my reading dropped off significantly. Lately, I’ve been buying books one after another and still can’t bring myself to get past a few pages. I think part of it is, I crave the school environment that pushed me to continue. That challenged me with questions and gave me satisfaction when finishing the chapters by their due dates!

Is there any sites that you can replicate that? Where maybe, you can type in your book, it has questions by chapter and even does vocab with you? Things that we used to do in school when we read? Anything of that nature? I just think it would really give me the excitement again that I’m reading, not just for fun, but to start exercising my mind again.

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boxer_dogs_dance t1_j71fgah wrote

Johan Hari's book Stolen Focus is one of several that shows how social media is designed to be addictive and shortens attention span.

Making a commitment to read for a minimum amount of time each day and doing it can help.

Edit, r/bookclub and r/classicbookclub and r/fantasy among others choose books to read as part of a group with discussion.

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mikloved OP t1_j71h7uz wrote

Replying to boxer_dogs_dance (#1,711,701)

Definitely understand how that could play a factor in attention span. I don’t know how much it relates to me though, because I’m truly not on socials much at all? This is even only my first or second post in the two years I’ve had an account! But I suppose how much time is too much is relative to the person, so it definitely could be affecting me. I really feel like what plays a huge part is just that I went through a rather rough time and my mind has just had this fog ever since? So when I sit down to read, sometimes I don’t feel as capable of deciphering the language of the old books I want to get into or I feel like I’m not catching metaphors like I did back then. And I just remember school having such a good curriculum that helped me break the barrier on some reads back then, so I thought it would be interesting if anyone knew of something that I could follow along with kind of like we did back then! Thank you so much for taking the time to reply!

Edit- I’ll look into those and see how the discussions are, thank you so much again!

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mikloved OP t1_j71hkmr wrote

Replying to PmMeYourBestComment (#1,711,679)

Thank you for the advice! Definitely will look into goodreads and maybe joining a book club, I just hope I can find one that we all align in our book interests? But I can figure that out! Is there any places that you know of for those online book clubs? Thanks so much for your reply!

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boxer_dogs_dance t1_j71ihba wrote

Replying to mikloved (#1,711,754)

So I aimed and missed by assuming that someone I met on social media was active. Sorry. Depression and grief can absolutely interfere with attention span and focus. I do recommend the bookclub and classicbookclub subreddits.

Coursera offers university courses online. You could also start with short stories and novellas. r/suggestmeabook is a good resource for finding literature.

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