One difference between reading and watching television: often a show or movie is chosen after first deciding to watch something, whereas a book is chosen specifically for its content.

People will plop on the couch and “see what’s on.” You sit down to read because you’re enthralled. Which activity sounds more worthy of our time?

Have you ever heard of a famous, successful person who watched a lot of TV? Roger Ebert doesn’t count—he also wrote reviews for reading, after all. How about any of the rich and fulfilled who happened to be voracious readers?

Largely, movies and shows are created to entertain or emote. Fiction can do the same, freeing your mind to fancy its imagination; Nonfiction, on the other hand, is created to make you think.

Screens inundate our vision. Books change our world.