I use to think the same thing to. Reading has always been very hard for me and still is so I often liked videos more and I still watch lots of videos lol. Books will help give you a deeper understanding of a topic and has a level of detail that videos barely ever have. One thing that might help you is always avoiding noise when reading. The best thing you can do is find a quiet place to read. Good earplugs or something can help when there is no other opinion. A lot of us including me have a really hard time shutting out sound and I believe that anyone that has a hard time reading should try spending more time reading in quiet places. Even with my issues reading now I can read and understand stuff that is often only for people with good reading skills because I am aware of how the world around me effects how I read.

Programming books are different, trust me. You're not intended to just read them cover to cover, like with a novel. You're supposed to read it with your computer next to you, type in each example code and see what it does, and how it changes if you change the code. It's a lot less like reading a storybook and more like programming from a tutorial, or reading an instruction manual for how to build (and make mods for) your own IKEA videogame. Al Sweigart's book of arcade clones (which you can read for free on his website) is particularly fun for this.