> Personally, reading again was a great way to rebuild my attention span and just rewiring my brain in general. I had no idea how bad I had become.

I've gone through this same process. It was definitely frightening to realize how far I'd fallen from my grade-school bookworm days. I have to consciously fight against bad information-intake habits now. I actually wrote an ebook about it: https://www.amazon.com/How-Start-Reading-Again-Internet-eboo...