I used to be an avid reader but as I got older and busier I just couldn’t find the time.
Then when I did have time there was always distractions, or other things I could be doing.
So now I read primarily via audiobooks through Libby and my library.
I read 130 books or so last year that way.
Mowing the yard? Audiobook.
Long drive? Audiobook.
Waiting at the doctors? Audiobook.
Dishes? Audiobook.
And then when I’m really invested I’ll relax by playing some mindless game while I listen. Think match 3 or bejeweled.
Just engaging enough to keep me from getting bored while listening but not so much that I can’t do both.
Balatro, BABA is you? Bad candidates for playing and listening.
The last couple of years I burned through the wheel of time series, all of Brandon Sanderson’s books (except skyward which I haven’t gotten to), a lot of Adrian Tchaikovsky, and others.
There was something in the manual if I remember correctly. Which you wouldn’t necessarily have if you rented the game.
Edit: just checked and I was wrong. Nothing in the manual. I must have been thinking of another game.
https://www.gamesdatabase.org/Media/SYSTEM/Nintendo_NES/Manual/formated/Castlevania_2-_Simon-s_Quest_-_1988_-_Konami.pdf