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No problem immersing myself in a book here, for hours at a time. I can still read novels in a single sitting (with the odd break to get tea or go to the loo).
What I don't get is why some stick-in-the-mud professors think that over-long sentences in archaic English are somehow "better"; as though reading or preferring that kind of language is some sort of gold standard.
Communication is "better" communication if it is effective. Storytelling is better storytelling if it gets the point across in an absorbing/entertaining/thought-provoking way (or all of the above). And yet some continue to judge everything by the standard of a now-distant past. It perhaps should be pointed out that that particular past - a literate, gentry-centric 19th century & very early 20th century northwestern Europe - is only the history of a tiny proportion of the world's population.
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