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I've recently gotten back into reading as a way to wind down before bed without using the phone, and it has done wonders for my sleep. Pair it with a kobo ereader and downloading, uh, free books means there's no pressure to read books you don't enjoy (I find with physical books they tend to loom at you from the shelf and make you feel guilty for not reading, which only makes things worse).
Anyway to get to the point reading can be a very low investment hobby if you want it to be.
+1 for the e-reader. As someone who consistently has three or four books in progress at the same time, an e-reader is how I manage to actually read. I tend to pick my reading based on a whim or mood at the time. If I’m leaving for work, I won’t know how I’ll feel once I have time to read. Instead of lugging all four books with me, I’ll tend to bring none. Which means I don’t end up reading throughout the day.
But with an e-reader, that situation is entirely flipped on its head. Don’t know what I’ll want to read? It doesn’t matter, because my entire library is on the kobo. My only limitation now is comics, because .cbz files tend to take up a lot more space than .epub files do. So I’ll consistently have my entire library, and also a few comics. But even the comics problem is largely solved, because I host my own Komga server, which my kobo can connect to and download new comics.