So they're both literature and serve the same purpose. Then the choice is obvious to pick the medium that stimulates the visual and audible realms. AKA the more exciting one where you don't have to use your imagination and it drains less time out of your day. Why do you insist on movies? Can't you just accept that there are people that like books more then movies? Reading a book ofcourse longer as you have mentioned many times, but you obviously don't understand that people like enjoyable things to be longer, personally I like very long books more then short ones.. Just let it go, it's just matter of what someone likes, you like movies more, thats ok, you don't have to convince everyone that movies are better, because some people just enjoy books more.