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I can't possibly agree. The lack of visuals is one of the greatest selling points of books, for me. I get to do the imagining. My vision of the story is not con
by swombat 17y ago
I can't possibly agree. The lack of visuals is one of the greatest selling points of books, for me. I get to do the imagining. My vision of the story is not constrained by what some director could imagine. Books with images are inherently inferior to books without images.
- derefr 17y agoAnd graphic novels have had a hard time breaking into bookstores for just this reason—most people treat them as "an inferior version of a book," when they're really an entirely different medium, like a film is to a play. e-Readers will be the greatest boon to graphic-novel distribution since their invention, I think. That says nothing either way about books, though. :)