Used to, but I’ve managed to keep it under control. For reference, I have ADHD, and due to my carreer and hobbies I spend most of the day in front of a screen. I’ve gotten the algorithms from sites and apps I use to favor media on the longer side and have no issues sticking to it, or reading for long periods of time. Since I started taking medication for ADHD, it’s gotten even better still. Though I won’t lie, when reading I often had to read the same thing twice or thrice because I didn’t really read it.

Yeah, my attention span is also messed up because of the internet, but it’s not the internet’s fault necessarily, just how efficiently it provides people with what they want. These algorithms, which are intended to keep people in their respective websites or apps, are so good that we get comfortable being entertained instead of seeking out something that we genuinely like. Consider before, people tuned in at the exact time on the exact day to watch the next episode of X or Y show, then it switched to on demand streaming, and now the way people like to consume shorter form media (~10-20 mins) is recommendations from algorithms. My attention span was already shit from start, but the way I try to improve it a little is to seek out and choose what I would like to watch rather than have something recommend it to me. If you want to go a step further, try reading shorter books for awhile and build your tolerance and love for books up again just like grade school did way back when. If not, whatever lol, but I’m saying all of this because I’m trying to get myself out of a similar spot.

What’s stopping you from trying again? Treat it like working out: schedule 30 minutes per day in which you have to read the book, and you have to try honestly. It doesn’t matter if you get distracted and have to start over all the time, just keep trying. After a while, your habits will change and it will come naturally.