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Watching a tv show? Watching a movie? Pintrest? Reddit? HN? Facebook? Twitter?

Well, video games are unique in being able to suck an entire weekend away without you noticing.

Every form of media can do that. By pure numbers video games lead, but whether a type of media is immersive depends on an individual.

If you've never spent a solid week on a couch reading a book, I highly recommend doing so at least once in your life.

A whole week? Even the biggest novels top out at around 1000 pages. The fattest single-volume mass-market paperback novels I have seen other people actually reading are King's _It_, Michener's _Hawaii_, Mitchell's _Gone With the Wind_, and Rand's _Atlas Shrugged_. Those might last the whole week, if you spent most of it napping.

That said, I recommend it be done on a sandy beach or on a hammock rather than the couch, and at least once per year, rather than once per lifetime.

For me, it was Stephen King's "The Stand" (1152 pages) when I was on summer break in high school. I fully admit it would be harder for me to schedule a stretch like that today.

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