Because I'd run out of internets to read on my phone, and I was waiting outside a shop
Also, it had a 40% off Pizza Express and 10 off 50 Tesco voucher in it... it was, allegedly, a "quality" shrunken-broadsheet mind.
I read a full newspaper, dead tree type, today - because I was stuck in the car waiting for someone for a prolonged period. Wouldn't say my ability to give attention to something for a long time is gone, just the requirement to do so often is gone due to be more options.