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Quotes tagged “Why Books Are More Powerful”

“The lack of video, the lack of audio, the lack of ways to change the forking outcomes of plot is a feature of literature, not a bug. And, as it turns out, books are interactive. They’re recipes for the imagination. Conversely, video is restrictive—it tells you what things look like, what they sound like.”
— Richard Nash, What is the Business of Literature?
Tagged: Media Theory, Books, Power Of Reading, Why You Should Read Instead of Watch TV, Book Technology, Why Books Are More Powerful, Against Television as Art

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