When I was younger (and reading things I wasn't interested in) I noticed I would often read a sentence but not absorb it, proceeding to the next regardless. I

When I was younger (and reading things I wasn't interested in) I noticed I would often read a sentence but not absorb it, proceeding to the next regardless. I saw the words, I just wasn't actively focused on their meaning, and kept going. It became a reflex to just keep going, until the end of the paragraph and I had missed a lot. I corrected it by not allowing myself to proceed until I had re-read the sentence and absorbed the meaning. It sometimes would take multiple shots, and it slowed my reading considerably. Eventually though, I lost the habit. Fwiw.