With recent advances in technology many people find more enjoyable activities than reading in their free time. They claim that it is much more interesting to watch a film version of a book than to read it. But can really movies replace books?

In my opinion, reading is absolutely worthless. Firstly, books are very important for our mental development, while films are made mostly for entertainment, they hardly contain something useful for our minds. Secondly, many film plots shorten the most interesting parts of books, because they do not their film to be very long. Thus we can lose the idea that the book author wanted to pass on to us. What is more, movie makers often add scenes of s