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Maybe you should treat books like TV then: give it a half hour, and if you're not hooked, close it and find another.

I know many people say books take longer to enjoy, but a bad TV series can take ~12 hours per season. Most people can probably finish a novel in 12 hours.

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Maybe I'm going about this the wrong way but I feel like books are more comparable to movies. A bad movie lasts under 2 hours and I can usually skip around without losing much context because pictures and video convey a lot more information than text. I can infer things that I miss based on background elements whereas in a book if the characters go to a different location, it's hard to know that unless I read the part where they go to said location.

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