[gobblegobble2]

It's easy to blame the internet, but for me the biggest reason why my deep reading capacities suffered was college. If every semester you have to grind thousands of pages, the art of skimming and superficial reading is necessary survival tool. Writing papers with short deadlines quickly leads to fishing for quotes and references in source material. After few hard years of college it's difficult to get back to old reading habits, even if it's just fiction in leisure time.

[lev99]

My reading habits suspended during college for skim culture, and rebounded every break from school and fully recovered after graduation.

[seppin]

For me it was even earlier, forced to read absurd amounts of very boring textbook material for early school. Put me off reading for life, just like an abusive piano teacher would for music.