I find reading books exceptionally difficult

It’s incredibly important to reread. Nabokov said as soon as you have finished a novel you should reread it. But I find it almost impossible to read a book at all.

One night in the summer of 2015 I left my telephone in the office and my WiFi wasn’t working at home so I couldn’t get on the internet on desktop or tablets and so I managed 2 chapters of War and Peace.

War and Peace IS ABSOLUTELY WONDERFUL, very readable indeed, but I had started it in February to get ready for visiting Russia on 1st May and didn't finish it for almost two years.

The only other book I read in 2015 was a 150 page book by Lucian Boia, "Cum s-a romanizat Romania", which I picked up in a tent selling books while hanging around Vama Veche waiting for a friend who was two hours late.

The problem with the internet is that unlike books you never reach an end to it. There’s always something else to click on.

Does anyone have any tips as to how to read these days? I have given up social media and reading the news for Lent.