How I'm going to convince myself to read more

“Sometimes, you read a book and it fills you with this weird evangelical zeal, and you become convinced that the shattered world will never be put back together unless and until all living humans read the book.” -John Green, The Fault In Our Stars

I don't read enough.

There's 2 problems I seem to come across when I get into reading books.

Problem 1:
Getting bored because I read too much too soon, leaving me with little to no motivation to continue reading the next day.

Solution:
What I noticed is that there's only a certain length of time I can continue reading a book until the words stop making sense.
The idea is to follow what we learn in economics 101, namely, utility (satisfaction) maximisation. My motivation starts off low, then increases as the book gets intriguing, and then sentences lose their meaning because I've been reading it for too long and it hasn't yet finished. The original thought would be to stop reading when they start to lose their meaning, right? Wrong! The idea is to stop reading where my motivation to continue is maximised.

At this point you might be like "That's stupid. You're stupid! Why would you stop reading when that's literally the peak reading time?! " Exactly! It's at its peak, the marginal utility is going to start decreasing from then on. You see the idea is that there's no way I'd finish the book in the next half an hour, but I do want to continue reading the book. If I stop reading when my motivation is at a maximum, I'll be more likely to pick the book up tomorrow and continue. But if my marginal utility starts to diminish, my average utility will start to fall and I'm less likely to continue reading tomorrow because what I'll remember is the lower (average) utility that the book offered.

Problem 2:
Once I finish a book, I don't want to instantly start a new one because either I've fallen for problem 1 and absorbed nothing by reading too much at once, or I just want a couple of days to reflect on the book I just read. Next thing I know, the couple days have turned into a couple of years.

Solution:
Read 2 or more (but less than 5) books at any one time. The reason for this is that once I finish one book, I'll always want to continue to finish off the other books. This way, there won't be a time where I'm not reading a book and as a result, I won't necessarily delay starting on my next book since I've already started it. The reason it has to be less than 5 is so I don't overwhelm myself with so many books that I ignore reading all of them. Obviously the number of books will also have to be limited by the stresses of my daily/weekly/monthly schedule.

This could combine with the first problem that if I really can't stop reading at peak motivation, I could continue reading the next book.

Nevertheless, trial and error will help me find the best way to consistently read more books.