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There’s really nothing better than a good book While movies are great, and tv shows as well, there is a level of fidelity that I can get from books that I just don’t feel like I get from books. It’s also where I am at the moment - just really enjoy books Also I’ve been enjoying fiction a lot more lately, and getting so much from it. Great stories are really hard to beat. Also as I get older maybe I’m just less inclined to spend time reading things I don’t enjoy
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I'm confused by your use of the word fidelity here. Do you mean that you connect with books in a way that movies and tv lack for you?
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No, movies and tv connect with me in a different way. I'd say fidelity in the sense, that there is a lot more details or stories that I'm able to get into. You can get it with movies of course as well, it is in the form of rewatching. But take the LOTR and the Hobbit for example, just so much dense information about random things that take place, side quests and generally filling information about the world you are inhabiting, and there's something ostensibly nicer about that (imo)
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Ah okay, i understand now. Control of content release is a huge difference between literature and film, we tend to not take time to pause and think through with tv/film as much as with books, plus books are arguably a more individual perspective version of the telling of a story compared to movies (author/editor vs writer/director/dop etc) which may make a difference. I get more from books too, and for me its the reduced sensory input that allows me to sink myself into the story more. It's just me and the words on the page and what i do with that in my head, rather than the funnel being inverted with the creation of content outside for me to then decode into the message of what it means. I do love films, though, and tv, but books are an incomparable form of soul soothing.
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