Now that's a whole new topic.... are the books you read DRM-free?

Not drm free but not so intrusive to bother me.

Maybe he'd just turn to a life of crime, thinking, I've wasted enough of my life writing. Now I want some action and excitement!!! Just kidding. :)

Or, he could get stuck in a lift with Kenneth Brannagh and think he had died again and gone to hell :P

OR find out the Twilight series of books is more popular than his works today, then go back to being dead.

lol

You tend to read much more into what people post and draw conclusions that put you into defensive mode which in turn makes you blow things out of proportion.

I neither like nor dislike you. I’m neither bothered by your beliefs nor angry - to put it bluntly, I don’t care either way about your beliefs. And I certainly didn’t attack you or accuse you of anything - the only one that though of and called you names is yourself.

Since you managed to miss the point of my post, let’s try this one last time.
You believe that books are inferior to other media and that you have the right to express it and expect people to not be bothered if they disagree with you. That’s all fine by me. But isn’t it odd that you’re bothered when others express the opposite opinion? That’s what you said in your post and that’s what I commented on – nth more, nth less.
And FWIW, I'll say it again - when it comes to (entertainment) media, there is no right or wrong, because it's all very subjective; one having different tastes and preferences doesn't make another one's wrong.

Anyway, I have no interest into getting into an argument with you, especially since you seem to take every potential disagreement as a personal attack against you and an attempt to put you down. So, feel free to reply if you so must, but I don’t have anything else to say on the matter.

Have a nice life :-)

"While you're bothered by those thinking that other (entertainment) media are inferior to books, you don't seem to abstain from this practice yourself (only into the opposite direction). "
Maybe you should of been more clear. This can easily be seen as accusing someone of being a hypocrite. I didn't miss anything. The first half of your post didn't really have a point. Who said I don't expect other people to be bothered by what I said? I don't expect people to get angry and unleash personal insults on me for what I said. There is a difference.

"But isn’t it odd that you’re bothered when others express the opposite opinion?"
Is this a joke? Yes, let me find a forum for people who are against abortion online and tell them all that I think, there is nothing wrong with abortion. Then when people there reveal to me, they are bothered by what I have said, I will say, "isn't it odd that your bothered when others express the opposite opinion?".

Well, in all fairness, if Twilight is more popular, then that's more of an indictment of modern readers than Shakespeare's works :)

That's rather silly. Shakespeare wrote plays for the people, and I'm sure he'd be fascinated by current culture. He'd probably be surprised at how highly his works are considered after all these years.

In all fairness, the reasons Shakespeare's plays are read less than many other books are that: a) it's harder to read a play than a novel, a play was meant to be watched; b) The English is old and therefore hard to read.

I tend to agree that novels aren't the best media for people who lack imagination.

If imagination is so great for some people(the one's who don't lack imagination), why is there so much demand for movies and TV shows? How come, nowadays, less and less people are reading books? How come these people who have an imagination, don't just stay home, most of their lives and use their imagination to live their lives? Why do these people bother going out, looking for girlfriends or boyfriends? Why don't they just use their imagination? Because if someone's imagination is superior to what they can see right in front of their eyes, then clearly, they don't need real life experiences to live a satisfying life. If every time, I opened a book and experienced a Neverending Story type experience then I'd probably live in a public library and ignore everything else about life. I wouldn't even waste time to post on internet forums because there are so many books to read and so little time.

Yep. I'm guilty of making a silly joke.

My friend, you've made your point, we won't make you enjoy books or think they're a different medium of art and entertainment, and you most certainly won't convince us that books are inferior to movies and video games, so, please, stop being antagonistic for antagonism's sake alone and trying to start arguments with us just because we think differently. You don't like to read, you don't value imagination, you're a 'practical individualistic person' with a 'pragmatic sense about them' and you're pretty certain of your values and personal truths and beliefs, we get it, please, move on. I think you're wrong in a lot of things you said about imagination and the whole demand for movies and TV shows, but I'm not in the mood to perpetuate any discussion with you, because I honestly don't think you'll even try to make an effort to understand -- you want to know why people demand TV shows and movies instead of books? There, because most people are dumb and refuse to work their brains to understand art and make their own interpretations of it; it's easier to watch a movie and just mentally drool because you have no image decoding whatsoever, it just enters your brain in a very basic way. Video games are interactive and give you an illusion of choice, but they're still as basic as it gets, you get a semi-accurate visual and thematic depiction of the developers' intended world, so you don't have to work your brain creating the world through your own thought process.

This isn't a thread to discuss Literary Theory, and even if it was you'd just plainly disagree with everything we'd say because "clearly" books are inferior and there's high demand for TV shows and movies for some "higher reason". This was a thread to appreciate an ad some people made, trying to get people to read books to their kids and getting them to read things they enjoy, because reading is ultimately a good thing. You dislike books, that's your prerogative, you're entitled to that opinion, you have stated it here, good for you, we get it. We like books, you don't. We don't think they're in any way inferior to other mediums of art and entertainment, you do. It's all good. But you don't need to force your shortsighted opinion on everyone just because you're entitled to it.

I miss Reading Rainbow tv show. Heck, I miss the old PBS network.