And I mean this legitimately: STEM books are the worst about this. The authors don't give a fuck about you if you aren't 100% neurotypical and their type of "Intelligent."
In the design world, most books are actually created to focus on keeping your attention on the focus using common design techniques - particularly, chunking of information and breaking down information that doesn't need to be a paragraph into a graph or other visual to break up the visual rhythm of the book.