You will become better at this as you read more books. Don't sweat it right now. Just concentrate on reading as much and as widely as you can.

I have the same problem op, sometimes my mind just wanders off and I lose focus on the book i'm reading, even if the book is really good, any tips to prevent this

slow down and focus

sounds like more of a self-discipline issue rather a "I suck @ reading" issue

for most people this happens because you're not fully engaged with what you're reading. to improve your focus, try to find some things that are just a little above your reading level -- challenging but not overwhelming. read slowly. consciously question what you read -- make the questions link the reading with what you already know. experiment with answers. test the answers as you read further. you can do this mentally, but you might need to start off doing in on paper. retention and comprehension will go up very fast the more you connect the material to what's already in your mind.

This might seem odd, but have you thought about taking notes on what you're reading as you work through it? I was introduced to the method in once of my English classes, and I found it really helps make the info stick and gives you a tangible point of reference after you put out down, take care of matters, then return to it. In fact the first notes I took down for that class helped me remember details about the novel I read, even thigh I donated my copy long ago and haven't seen the book since (the book was The Year of the Flood, by Margaret Atwood, by the way. Fascinating post-apocalypse read)

I'm reading Pride and Prejudice right now and find myself re-reading a lot of paragraphs.
I like to pretend that is because of the age of the book but I am really not sure...

This usually means you're not interested in what you're reading. Read something else or do whatever it is you'd rather be doing.

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It's because it's fucking boring.

OP here, its not that I'm uninterested. In fact the stuff I'm reading is what I really want to read but for instance I'm reading The Power of Now by Eckhart Tolle at the moment and its just hard for me to keep up with the book

Oddly enough, I got over this problem myself by learning to read two different foreign languages. Once you sit down and read a book painstakingly slow in a foreign language, it doesn't feel so bad to slow the fuck down and digest what you're reading in English. I think it's just a problem with reading at the speed you're used to (i.e. the speed you read restaurant menus, stop signs, and web pages) instead of the speed you actually need to read to understand it.

How to Read a Book

by Mortimer Adler

You're welcome.

a lot of times when i'm reading something difficult i'll get sort of antsy but i realized that's not because the text's neccesarily borng but because i find myself getting worried about whether i've got enough TIME to finish reading it although it's an inherent property of writing that it's always somehow inherently made of DEFERRED TIME so even if you get it it always sorta feels like thre's never enough TIME to REALLY get it so in some ways maybe it's not you it's just how text works but somehow that's the whole point i dunno it helps to just relax...

thanks brokowski. 1 page read? I can dig it