[helboi4]

I dunno there are tons and tons of really good books out there. I don't think you could go through them all in one lifetime. Books are easier to create and have been around for much longer than movies. Executing a whole movie well requires at least thousands, if not millions of dollars, loads of equipment, a huge team of people who need to all be top notch at a variety of different specialist skills, extras, onsite permissions and often years of time. A book can be written in about one year or less through the work of only one person, using just one skill that we all learn as a child. It's way easier to execute a book well. So, as you said, theres more of them, and definitely because of this theres tons of good ones. Experts or people with interesting lives really don't have the time, resources or skills to make a film but loads of them write books.

Most people who read almost constantly do read a decent amount of books that are less good than the others. Though they will often read more good books than you too. When I used to read books constantly, I could read faster and retain more. I could also write better. Now I read rarely because I only care to read the most useful things, it takes me way longer to read, I am less focused and retain less and my writing is somewhat worse. So I do think it's worth reading often for those benefits. Reading is so unenjoyable to me now I don't do it frequently. But it's not like I'm doing more useful and enjoyable things with my time either. Life isn't only about knowledge-based enlightenment, I agree, but it is usually about wasting a certain amount of time, whether you like it or not. So you might as well waste it well. In this case, waste it by reading lighter material so that your brain is always primed to read the good stuff efficiently.

At least, that's my new years resolution.