The good thing about this is that there is an endless amount of books out there as well. As the article author says, some people are running out of shows to watch on Netflix. You will literally never run out of books to read.

My inability to find quality hard sci-fi I haven't already read would beg to disagree.

Well, widen your horizon then, read something completely different. Alternate history, real history, a classic or 2, hard science (without the fiction part), some philosophy, etc. I tend to move from genre to genre to avoid getting stuck in a rut, something I started doing when in primary school after having read half a bookshelf of adventure/western style books and getting thoroughly fed up with the genre...

The same advice applies to screens as well. Lots more than Netflix out there.

That's a good point. It's easy to 'never run out of books'. It's quite easy to 'run out of books in the particular category I like'.

If anybody has recommendations for books like Zombie (fiction) or Children of Time (a novel told in part from the perspective of an advanced, non-human society), I'd be very happy to hear them.

Did the same and quit TV completely about 10 months ago. Fairly quickly after, I noticed that I am reading books every day and sleeping better (I now fall asleep consistently at same time every night.)

There is something about removing the high stimulus of TV watching that allows my brain to appreciate being productive. It's been easier to be motivated to do things I truly want instead of defaulting to the veg state each night.

I totally quit TV long ago and haven't looked back. Didn't do much for my sleep, though.

I've found reading before bed is better as well.