I can't concentrate on a book by the time I'm done working. It's probably been a decade now since I read a book.
A friend suggested trying to read 3 days into a 1 week vacation. I couldn’t.
And from that moment I realized it was a muscle like anything else. Consuming media that requires active participation and work, that you are not rewarded for (professional learning) takes practice.
I come home tired most days but I still manage to crank out time to read.
Maybe it won’t work for you the way it worked for me, but give it a try. You might be surprised.
Some nights I cant fall asleep quick so I finish books that way.
Trying to read just before trying to go to sleep never worked for me, my brain shuts off completely as soon as I lie and bed with w book after 2200, yet if just stay up I don't sleep before 00:00.
Also, it helps to read something by people who can write. For example I never thought I'd read business related books, yet after it being mentioned so often here on HN I read the innovator's dilemma, loved it! His style of clear paragraphs and constant examples really works well for me.
Becoming a super nerd is unnatural.
A good workout can be done in 30 minutes, though I prefer about 90 total (core/weights, rowing, running in the non-winter seasons, about 30 minutes of each). Dinner, about 30 minutes to cook and 30 minutes to eat, another 15 max to clean (mostly done while I'm cooking so really usually just 1 minute to put plates in the dishwasher). So that's 2.75, leaving me with 5.25 hours for spending time with my wife, wasting time on HN, reading, or working on side projects.
And that's just the weekdays. Weekends I get 9 hours back since I'm not commuting and working, though some of that goes to yard and house work so realistically call it 7 extra free hours as an average.