I’ve been finding Japanese Let’s Plays a surprisingly good way to practice reading. Of course, you wouldn’t want to make something like that your only resource, but many games involve a lot of written dialogue, which the player usually reads out loud. It can be fun to try to read along, you get to see a lot of words you already know in context, and when you come across one you don’t know you have both the kanji right in front of you and the reading spoken aloud by a native speaker, so looking it up is a cinch. It’s become one of my favorite “I’m too tired to do any real studying for now, but I want to do something at least somewhat productive” activities. Japanese songs that have the lyrics onscreen are good for that too. 
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