The Lost Art Of Reading Why We Struggle To Finish Books In Medium
Be honest: when was the last time you finished a book cover to cover — without checking your phone every ten minutes? If you’ve got a half-read novel on your nightstand or a stack of “to-be-read” books collecting dust, you’re in good company. Many of us who once devoured books now find ourselves skimming, scrolling, or abandoning them halfway through. It’s not because we’ve suddenly become lazy or lost interest. It’s because the way we consume information — and the world around us — has rewired our attention. Johann Hari, in Stolen Focus, puts it plainly: deep reading is collapsing, and it’s not just our fault.
It used to be easy. You’d sit down with a book and get swept away—chapter after chapter, lost in a world built from nothing but ink and imagination. Now, your bookmark hasn’t moved in weeks. You pick it up, read a few pages, and put it down. You’re distracted. You’re restless.
And you’re not alone. If you’ve ever wondered why finishing a book feels harder than it used to, the answer isn’t just “you got busy.” There’s a deeper reason—rooted in psychology, neurochemistry, and cultural conditioning. First, let’s clear something up: this is not about laziness or lack of discipline. People who struggle to finish books today are often: The issue isn’t desire—it’s cognitive fragmentation. Our brains are being rewired by habits, environments, and technologies that prize skimming over depth, speed over immersion.
Reading long-form content like books requires: Let me tell you something. It’s about something we all used to do but somehow forgot along the way. It’s about reading. Not the kind where you skim through a text or scroll mindlessly. I’m talking about real reading the kind that pulls you in, makes you laugh, cry, and forget about the world for a while.
Remember that feeling? Yeah, me too. Let’s bring it back. Okay, so I didn’t really forget how to read, but I used to love reading so much. I used to read great books from my dad’s book shelf, especially devotional books, many years ago. Back then, I even managed to finish all 10 volumes of Valmiki Ramayanam !
But now? I’ve come to the realization that I haven’t finished any of the books I began. I would pick one up, but my phone, my kids, or the never-ending chaos of life would take my attention away. And then, wow, reading was no longer magical. It really hurt me. Reading used to be my escape and my happy place.
But I lost it somewhere between work, family, and, well, everything else. I would like to preface this article by saying I was born a reader. From the moment I first learned how to read I was infatuated with the creative and exciting world that I was introduced to, and I spent a large percentage of my younger years with... Now, I understand that this is not the case for many, and reading can often prove to be a difficult challenge. However, I think we can all agree that being able to read is an invaluable asset that everyone can benefit from at any stage in their lives, and it is an utter shame that... Some of my fondest childhood memories took place at my local public library, which I would visit with my siblings every single Friday afternoon like clockwork.
There, we would have free reign to peruse the endless shelves of books and select our reading materials for the coming week. I was in a constant state of astonishment at the sheer number of titles there were to choose from, and on more than one occasion I ended up with a bag of books larger... As I grew older, my taste in literature developed, but I never stopped my habit of reading whenever I could. Although I’m sure many people share similar childhood experiences, surprisingly few allow this habit to extend into their teenage and adult years. They may still sit down every once in a while and crack open a novel, but odds are, the majority of their reading materials are mandatory assignments for their high school and college classes,... This new view of reading simply as a means to academic success is drastically different from the beliefs of prior generations.
Until recently, having a large and broad personal library was seen as the utmost privilege, and people viewed purchasing books as an investment. As our world progresses, however, fewer people are choosing to purchase and read books, opting to spend their hard-earned money elsewhere. This begs the question: what in our society has changed so drastically in the past few decades to cause such a prominent shift in our view of reading? If you guessed technology, then you are 100 percent correct. As cliche as this sounds, it’s absolutely one of the leading causes of this phenomenon. Although technology has improved so much of the world as we know it, making it difficult to even fathom a world in which all information is not at our fingertips, there is much to...
A large part of technological advancements in the past few years have been in the realm of entertainment: Netflix, YouTube, Hulu and countless other streaming sites have made incredible fortunes feeding off of the... While I think that it can be a blessing to be able to “turn your brain off” at the end of the day and wind down with a nice TV show, it may be... “Why does reading matter? Because language and narrative are what we have.””–The Art of Reading by David L. Ulin This book had my name on it.
Like many people, I struggle with internet dysfunction. (I refuse to call it addiction.) When I started this blog in December 2012, I decided to write a bookish post every day. Imagine my shock when I discovered in 2014 that my book blog interfered with my reading. In The Lost Art of Reading: Books and Resistance in a Troubled Time, David L. Ulin, a critic, essayist, and former editor of the L.A. Times book page, writes about his own struggle with interrupted reading.
This book-length essay, first published in 2010, reminds us of why we need to read deeply. The book has been reissued with a new introduction by Ulin. Ulin is like us, in that he has always been an avid reader and remembers the cities he has visited in terms of bookstores. (The world is just one big bookstore and we all know it.) But he began to struggle with reading with full attention after he got high-speed internet in 2006. During the 2008 election he was constantly checking the news on the internet. He writes,
I have a mental picture of myself at the computer, several on-screen windows open, one an email queue, one a piece of writing, the rest digital shards of reportage or documentation from a variety... I know this is apocryphal because, even in this era of extreme distraction, I am not a multitasker, but rather someone who does first one thing and then the next in scattered sequence, closing... And yet, something about this image strikes me with the force of metaphor, with the essence of emotional truth. The Lost Art of Reading: Why Books Matter in a Distracted Time by David L. Ulin This page is available to subscribers.
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isbn 978-1-57061- 670-9 We have all experienced it before: while attempting to read, our phone pings, alerting us to the arrival of a new text, email, Tweet, or status update. And try as we might to forget that it happened and continue reading, we simply cannot ignore the itching anxiety we feel at not knowing immediately what it says. We stop reading (oftentimes midsentence), put down the book, and check our phones, immersing ourselves in a technologically driven world that David Ulin calls "the buzz." In his newest book, The Lost Art of... This is not, however, a personal vendetta against technology; in fact, as he states in the book, Ulin himself is an avid user of such technologies as the iPod, the Blackberry, and various e-readers. And, as he so astutely points out, books also belong on the technological continuum: the invention of movable type radicalized the entire world and shaped the future of literacy.
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