As I noticed, after reading 2-8 thousand words a day, after a few days of reading like this, it becomes very difficult for me to read, and I started reading actively lately, before that I only watched TV shows and movies, and now I have a slight headache, the text is floating, I even confuse words. In fact, that’s why I used to read very little, and now I’m so tired of TV shows and movies that I’m willing to force myself to read, even if I have a headache, to become emotionally attached to books instead of just consuming like zombie like I used to.
Audiobooks!
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Have you tried learning Braille?
Are you reading books because you want to, or because to think you HAVE to?
There’s no point in suffering through a leisure activity you don’t enjoy.
It’s not that I don’t like it, I like it, it’s just that I’m too used to TV shows and movies with music, which is a bit unusual, although interesting in its own way, it’s just that I find it difficult to enjoy the events in the text, there are no pictures, no character voices, and when I try to revive it in my fantasy, I get tired quickly.
If you wear glasses or contacts that are for seeing at a distance, it’s hard for your eyes to focus close-up for very long. Same for if you don’t wear glasses at all, if you are reading a lot. So depending on your situation you may just need to take your glasses off while reading, or pick up some cheap reading glasses at the drugstore–making sure to get the right type for easily focusing on the page, or even get bifocals. Best bet is to get an eye exam and tell the optometrist what you’ve said here, so they can figure out what your best options are.
Everyone is saying audiobooks which are read by voice actors. Have you tried TTS (Text to speech) apps?
I’ve been using @Voice for years and super happy with it.
I read WNs and LNs from Japan and Korea extremely often. I don’t really read them though. I listen while doing chores/driving.
You can share a website to it and it’ll load a few chapters using the <next> button.
If pre loading doesn’t work you can email the Dev and they’d fix it within 48 hours in my experience.
Try a different medium or visit a doctor maybe?
That sounds like 20 minutes or less of reading but the Internet is telling me that for slower readers that’s up to an hour for 8k words. If it takes you an hour, maybe don’t go for quite as long in a sitting and work up to it a little, if it’s 15 to 25 mins of reading I think I would switch to something more paper-like / talk to an eye doctor about it.
