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Sounds like mindfulness meditation to me.

Reading a book is like mindfulness meditation? Man, we really are living in a degraded age.

No, realizing you wandered from intentional thought and redirecting your mind back to the task at hand is mindfulness meditation 101.

There are plenty of books that are quite a slog, so reading them allows for quite a lot of mind wandering and/or self-reflection.