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While with the internet at arm's reach I may not read books as I did before, not even in the past twelve months, I am using that same "mental quality time" to view long videos explaining concepts in relativity and quantum physics, the history of science and of art, ancient cultures and civilizations, the origins of the languages we speak today, how Cuneiform was used in the Bronze Age...
The scope of information - and quality presentation of said information - at our disposal today is mind-boggling, nothing short of astonishing when you start scratching even just YouTube.
I do both. I've recently picked up reading before bed as a healthy habit and I've been slowly working through the Discworld series at about 1 book every month or two. It's nice to not stare at a screen for a bit, although I do generally skip nights where I've stayed up too late staring at screens
Pbs spacetime is absolutely fantastic if you truly want to dive into the physics hole without too much of the math