[imedadel]

Here's what I do: I start reading from the last paragraph.

I can barely get myself to read anything long, even exams! Somehow, starting from the last paragraph, and sometimes even the last sentence, and going back, makes me actually read the text. This also worked with research papers (conclusion -> 1st paragraph). Maybe give it a try?

[SkyMarshal]

I do this too. There’s something about reading things backwards that more actively engages and focuses my mind.

It’s partly because seeing the conclusions first triggers a “why”, that I then have to go back and discover in the previous explanations. Most research papers put the final conclusions in the abstract, but each subsequent section and paragraph also ends with intermediate conclusions. Read those first, then go backwards to find out why.

It’s also partly because it forces my mind to actively rearrange the knowledge coming into it, rather than having it all neatly pre-arranged by the author.

Maybe other things too, but for whatever reason it helps me be an active, rather than passive, reader.