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Do you prefer to watch movies or to read books? I like both of them, though mostly into reading, depends what.
Depends. For instance, I could hardly get through the Lord of the Rings books, but I absolutely loved watching the movies. Or for books like The Giver; I much prefer reading that because the movie was garbage (aside from Jeff Bridges being awesome as always).
Some movies ruin the books, like, absolutely butcher the books (7th son being one of these movies...)
However, I generally tend to prefer the movies.
I'm a movie buff so of course watch.

marshmallow

Both are great
I love to watch. I don't like reading, don't know why.
I prefer to read versus watch a movie or tv show.  But there are some movies or tv shows that are pretty good but nothing is as good as the book.  You seem to get to know the characters a little bit more by reading than you do when you watch the movie or tv show.
I would probably have to say watch movies. It's just so much better to actually watch a movie and see everything happen rather than read a book. Plus it's always easier to just watch a movie because it is usually much quicker than reading a whole book.
Definitely movies.  If I read tho, it's almost always non-fiction...