It's amazing that books give a better experience? Wow? Blues forums never cease to amaze me.
Books are ALWAYS better. With a book, your mind is the movie. You decide what the special effects are and who the stars are.
With a movie, a bunch of rich people who want your money hire actors who have a reputation for making money. The rich people then ask scientists what will make the "rats", moviegoers, "press the bar repeatedly", go to see the show.
The scientists say "well according to subliminal programming research done back in the 60's, if someone flashed a popcorn on the movie screen for 1/2 second, everyone would go buy popcorn. Our research indicates that people cannot help but be drawn to flashing images".
The rich guys say "great", then they order the director to make the film all quickly flashy "scenettes" instead of smooth, calm, long, comfortable scenes.
Then the accountants tell the rich guys "you know what? We can get some computer geeks to make Europe or Russia or whereever for $50,000. Geeks like to do that stuff. We can get them cheap. Why pay for expenses for a film crew to go to those places and film?
Then the accountants say "and you know what? All those people in the movies? They cost money. Those geeks have a program where they map a picture of a real person to a polygon and make the polygon walk down a sidewalk just like real people. We can do like that movie "I,Robot" and maybe hire 25 real people for the entire film.
The future of movies is already here. Disney. They dumped their hand drawn animation films for all 3D animation films. A 3d animation program costs about $1500 these days. An animator might cost $60,000 a year. All those Disney films that used to have huge casts with dancers and singers and large crowds have all been replaced by The Lion King or some other animation where you pay 10 people to do the voiceovers for the whole movie.
A book allows you to imagine the story as YOU interpret it. A movie forces a person to imagine the story according to the directors world view.