I love books, I love reading, but my main struggle while reading was having to go back and read a few pages again and again when I caught myself lost in random thoughts. Sometimes it took quite a long time to finish a simple book because of this.

Most books today have and audiobook version. So just try both at the same time. It's less likely you'll get distracted and if you do, you can just catch up to what you have been listening.

But most important trick is to read things you like and that interest you. Don't force on books that aren't interesting just to say that you finished it.

I hope this helps.

Maybe that loophole will work for your ADD.

The aphantasia test: imagine a person rolling a ball across the table.

What color was the person's hair? If it didn't occur to you, you may have aphantasia.

(This ability, I assume, is key in reading books. It's like an ongoing movie in your head if you can do it. I can't.)

I do have a sort of movie playing in my head, but it’s not really a visual or auditory experience. It’s more like a running list of bullet points; a stream of facts. Visual descriptions are chock full of these facts, but they’re all usually inconsequential to the plot so I tune them out.

I find aphantasia very strange. I don’t lack a mind’s eye, but I do lack the ability to use it while conscious. My dreams are extremely visual and movie-like, but my conscious experience isn’t really visual at all. It wasn’t until recently that I learned “day dreams” are named that way because for most people they resemble dreams, but mine don’t at all.

I imagined what you said, but my thought was focused on the ball, and so the person was "unfocused", or "not as detailed" - I'm not even sure what gender they were.

Oh, and I'm colour blind (which is relatively common), so probably don't think of colours in the same way as others.