The utopian reading experience is more mental than physical. In my own experiences, achieving the perfect reading environment is difficult if not impossible, so retreating into my brain often provides a more utopian experience than anything else.
If my ideal real world reading experience involves avoiding distractions, then my utopian reading experience does not involve anything at all. That’s just to say that I believe a utopian reading experience would feature nothing except the text itself and my own ability to perceive it. Although this is quite a utilitarian way of viewing a reading utopia, I do believe that being devoid of anything physical would make the reading experience infinitely easier, as there would be no physical or even mental distractions able to take away from the experience. It can just be myself and the text.
Since a reading utopia is the sort of thing that can only exist in my head, I have had the chance to have many different interpretations of what “reading utopia” can mean to me. The version of a utopian reading experience I described in the previous paragraph is mostly applicable to my time reading to study. Academic reading is often written in a way where you can easily get lost if you are distracted for a second, requiring you to go back and start from the beginning of the sentence or paragraph or wherever is the best new starting point.
The utopian academic reading experience and the utopian leisurely reading experience are quite different for me. While the academic reading utopia described above is more akin to something like outer space, I would call my utopian leisurely reading experience to be more like a cocoon. While one is wide open and empty, the other is extremely enclosed but also distinctly comfortable. It is a warm and enveloping space that, like the academic utopia, is devoid of distraction, but also fosters a sort of delight that is not often necessary in academic reading. Knowing you are reading for academic purposes can often make getting attached to readings difficult, as there is an inherent cold unfeelingness to reading because you were told to instead of reading because you have a genuine desire to engage with the material. That may be why I chose the outer space analogy earlier. This is not to say that an academic reading utopia cannot become a leisurely reading utopia if the reading strikes a certain chord, but the two are often distinct before they meld together (and if they meld together).