Can’t read!!!!

I came on to say Audiobooks. I still prefer the act of reading with a book but it's rare I get the chance to (she says scrolling when she could be reading)

I have now become a huge audiobook fan. As a Pp said, you can take them everywhere with you.

Find something that you would otherwise like to read and you get your first free book on audible. I have it to go to sleep, on my headphones on the way to work and when doing housework.

Of course it's not actual reading but it might be the gateway to get you back in.

You need a gateway read. I always go for a trashy thriller, or back to Anne of green gables for a bit. Or a Stephen king I haven't read.

Audio books while doing housework too; it's still long form narrative and will get you going.

If you think it's the Peri have you spoken to your GP? Not about your inability to read obviously but how you're feeling generally?

Too much scrolling?
Anxiety for me definitely.
I too suggest you go back and reread something that you really love.

I was going to say depression and anxiety. I have had periods in my life when I just couldn’t read. I couldn’t get my mind to focus and take in the information. I’d stare at the page but nothing would go in.

How about going through your favourite books, picking out favourite passages, and reading those passages out loud? I find this wonderfully therapeutic. And it might just help get you back into the swing of reading. I’d focus on the most joyful, uplifting writers (i.e Dickens and Jane Austen rather than Thomas Hardy or Philip Larkin!). For me, P G Wodehouse, Douglas Adams, Bill Bryson and Patrick Fermor hit the spot. By focussing on favourite passages, rather than reading an entire book, you don’t feel the same pressure.

Or you could surround yourself with your favourite books, and dip in at random, reading a page here, a chapter there, and chucking each one aside when you’re bored. Like most things in life, the best way is build slowly.