Yea books have more value in them versus movies and tv shows. I would rather read a book than watch a movie because you are expanding your mind based off what it is read and expanding your vocabulary. There is no expansion watching a tv show nor a movie because the immersion is already decided for you.

[quote]There is no expansion watching a tv show nor a movie because the immersion is already decided for you.[/quote] That is not true. As a Media Designer for Video (basically the job that does produce movies) each scene can, based on context to the former scene and depending on clips with each their unique dialogue, contribute to different experiences. For example if we take a movie with superman. In this case, Justice League from the Zack Snyder cut which differs a lot from the cinema version that was released before by WB. At the point where Superman is ressurected, in the cinema version he fights the other members of the Justice league, but gets quickly persuaded by his life-love Louis Lane and stops fighting them. In the fights of the cinema version he doesn't hurt anyone at all. At least not that they have any visible injuries aside from their hurt egos. Now let us say in the Snyder cut (which I didn't see yet btw.) Superman has some extra scenes where he breaks Batman a few ripps. That alone is enough to depict Superman, if he is angry, far more brutal than he usually is depicted in the cinema version. And that changes the way how you base your mind of that movie figure between those versions (within the example ofc). Now, let us say there is a literally rampage of such scenes spread across the movie for each character differently. That means that every character is seen differently. Now, you might say again "this is pre-defined and doesn't prove your point" but I am not done yet. I just wanted to outline the basics there. Next example I name is Game of Thrones. The series has a lot of foul language and intimate oriented scenes. I personally didn't enjoy the series, but others did. Let us take for example Ned Stark. In one scene Robbert Baratheon asks Ned Stark about the mother of his -blam!- son Jon. They both deepen the topic a bit within the frame of their character. Now, for me it is understandable that Ned took care of Jon but not that he ever went with a prost. woman and made a child. Some others would say he was just having fun. I would say he did spit on his personal honor. Does it make me dislike him less? Not really (since I really love the actor on screen playing his roles). But does it make the character appear different to me than for others? Very possible. For me personally is prost. a disgusting aspect of Mankind. For others it is just "the way how things are" or even the opposite of my opinion. But fact is, that the character appears different to me based on my personal opinion compared to someones own personal opinion. That is, what you named so, "expanding your mind based off what it is read" but in this case what I see and hear. Movies are not different from Books. Every additional/missing information can be interpret differently by everyone, based on their own Ideology/Agenda/Culture/World Views. Books just have the difference that they are longer, don't require energy to work and most importantly do require imagination to achieve a very distinctive experience for each individual reader. Movies on the other hand do that, but not that much. They are reducing the need of imagination for the majority to understand and experience the story.