Why do so many people recommend reading books? What exactly makes a book a more efficient learning tool than a video or whatever?

There are definitely other ways of gathering information. If you like to read, and I do, it's better than a movie or a video because you can create what's happening in the book using your own imagination instead of others inflicting their imagination on your experience. You can make it bigger or scarier or more beautiful in your head.

A book relies on your imagination to visualise the world and characters - I find movies to be a let down as they never live up to my imagination

People learn differently maybe. Otherwise prolly increases vocabulary, raises self-esteem, builds good communication skills, and strengthens the prediction engine that is the human brain. 🤷‍♀️

It isn't more efficient in my opinion. If watching a video helps you that is just as valid as reading. The information does not have to come from a book to be valid. A lot of people recommend books because, for the longest time in human history, books were the only way to attain information. It was the only piece of media we had at our disposal and the best way to communicate at that time.

Judging by what you wrote, you are a visual learner. And in some cases, I can be as well. We learn different ways depending on what we're trying to learn.

If you thing about a movie made from a book, someone has to read the book and interpret it for the viewers. Problem is that his interpretation is much different from mine. It’s a totally different experience. Maybe you would like the movie better but almost always I like the book better. I can get lost in a good book. If you don’t like to read… well, that’s cool too.

If you read fiction,you create your own images that way. That’s why everyone always says “the book was better “. Because no movie will come to par with your own imagination

{@ryzeup1n] books maybe an old fashioned way of educating the human mind has been a tried and tested theory for centuries and it has proved the perfect tool for the human learning curve

It’s just different learning styles, reading doesn’t work for you so that’s ok but it’s more efficient to ppl who’s earning style is like that

There is a reason that the movie almost never matches the book.

Nothing is better than a book for me. I like smelling the pages, turning them, etc.

I can appreciate documentaries, scholarly presentations, or me doing my own research.

But I think I’m a romantic when it comes to holding a book, scholarly or otherwise.

Seems people need to expand their understanding on information.

I get that stigma also because I suffer blindness.

I still read but electronically.

Yet I'm lesser than thou.

Bullying trying to appeal as unity for a cause.

Mere arrogance.

If I relied on book availability I wouldn't be up to speed with information.

It comes frequently and fast.

I don't think it's as important to read books as it is to gain the knowledge/experiences that's contained in books. If you don't like reading you can listen to audio. Take your time. Maybe your attention span only allows you 15 minutes. Then do it for that amount of time each day.

Some people are not readers.

Reading helps you learn how to spell better subconsciously too

Books are an escape from the world.
I love them.

I don't read books either

I find that they stimulate my brain more than watching something does. Probably because it requires a little more effort.

That being said, books aren't for everyone and you can learn an awful lot from videos and audio. If books don't suit you, that's fine.