Maybe this is just me, but I enjoy both reading text and visuals for what they each do. Text tends to be more analytic and cerebral, while visuals work to connect on a more instinctual level. Having been raised on a healthy diet of comic books as a kid, it always made sense to me that neither can connect comprehensively on its own.
Images will always be easier for people to process because we don't walk around in paragraphs and pages. Without images, we would have nothing to write and read about. Weren't the first forms of language images? Words only became necessary to describe more complex concepts than the images themselves could convey accurately.
Personally, I think people still consume about the same amount of words, but it's the distribution of where they come from that has changed. How much reading do people do today with texting, Twitter, and Facebook? And while some would argue this is a symptom of the decrease in reading, how do we know that those people would be reading a book with them? They're most likely to be the ones that wouldn't read a book anyway, so if anything those tools are helping them read more.
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