Reading is superior to TV watching because it requires the brain to work on a higher level. Movies and TV serve us an easy to consume dose of someone elses imagination, while reading, even what someone else has imagined, requires that you do your own imagining.
When we watch a movie, we all see the same basic thing. When we read a book, we have all in essence read a different book.
When I procrastinate or don't want to work or write, I turn on a TV show and "space out". I can't space while reading a book. It requires thinking, not the suppression of thought.
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