Our book club has actually noted that more and more mainstream books are written for low attention span. Repeating details ad nauseum and simplifying the plot significantly. So I don't think books are immune to this automatically.

> every other modern app tries to claw your eyes out.

They do, and it's annoying that even apps for "real work" do the same thing by flashing notifications/tips in your face, advertising a new feature you don't want to use right now, or warning you that everything is about to break soon.

Good old PC video games are good at this as well. It's a joy to get into a game and not have anything else trying to pull you away with random crap.

Relatively true, but less true every day.