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key@lemmy.keychat.org 6 months agoSimilar here. The “you need to read through page 95 by Thursday” for years ruined it for me. For over a decade after leaving school whenever I’d try to read something I’d just obsess over the page numbers and how long until a chapter break. It’s only very recently I’ve managed to get mostly past that and actually been able to get into what I’m reading.