Its the opposite for me. I finally can read the font properly without squinting and getting distracted from trying to read towards the spine. Or trying to pry open a new paperback with 2 hands, which feels like a workout sometimes.
Now I just read and get lost in the story. So I don't skip or get distracted. These issues of mine with paper had only crept up in the last some years. Before that with just paper, I remembered everything I read the same I do now, as far as I can tell. Probably still as bad with names as I was before. Real and fiction.
I only read fiction.