Poll: Books vs Video Games

[RaikuFA]

I think it's telling that even in a gaming website books "win" over games, silly as the non-comparison might be.

The OP asks which one is "better" at passing time, which is innocuous enough. Time passes anyway. But I submit books work better because you can read anything pretty much anywhere; most games don't have that luxury, and even if you're into portable gaming (I'm not) you can only do it for so long on so much battery life, and it requires a special care that a book doesn't.

I'd also like to point out that reading is something you absolutely have to cultivate. If you don't do it from an early age you're never going to 'get' it. Like how Raiku mentions he can't focus on anything that lingers or doesn't immediately pay off.

Mines mainly from a learning disability. Can still do nonfiction but fiction is terrible to me. Only reason I got through(and loved) Cuckoo's Nest was because I saw the film first.

What about audio books?

Dunno if I could ever try one.

 

[CaitSeith]

I'd say books are far more refined. I can read a book from decades/centuries ago, and it'll still hold up. Games have a harder time standing the test of time.

I have to step in here, because old books hold up not because they are books. It's difficult to find a centuries-old book than doesn't hold up, because most books that suck aren't preserved.

 

[CaitSeith]

I think it's telling that even in a gaming website books "win" over games, silly as the non-comparison might be.

The OP asks which one is "better" at passing time, which is innocuous enough. Time passes anyway. But I submit books work better because you can read anything pretty much anywhere; most games don't have that luxury, and even if you're into portable gaming (I'm not) you can only do it for so long on so much battery life, and it requires a special care that a book doesn't.

I'd also like to point out that reading is something you absolutely have to cultivate. If you don't do it from an early age you're never going to 'get' it. Like how Raiku mentions he can't focus on anything that lingers or doesn't immediately pay off.

Mines mainly from a learning disability. Can still do nonfiction but fiction is terrible to me. Only reason I got through(and loved) Cuckoo's Nest was because I saw the film first.

What about audio books?

Dunno if I could ever try one.

I you do, try Yatzhee's audiobooks; he narrates them himself.