Well, if it's just for entertainment, then books don't have more value than any other medium or way to spend time to entertain yourself. People have a book fet

Well, if it's just for entertainment, then books don't have more value than any other medium or way to spend time to entertain yourself. People have a book fetish because they imagine books are necessarily better quality, but it is actually rarely the case. Reading valuable books is hard, takes time, effort, and concentration, and is out of the means of most people. And that's just about all there is to it. Stuff that would have been books previously, now are just long articles because the commercial incentives have changed (just like music albums have disappeared). It's not a bad thing in my book!