Written records and books have been around for much longer than anyone currently alive can remember. In the last few years, streaming services like Netflix, Amazon Prime, and Hulu (to name a few) have become increasingly popular, and people can watch a movie at just the click of a few buttons. So, which do people prefer, books or movies?

Senior Allison Holland had a tough time deciding between books or movies. “I am a very visual person, so I enjoy watching movies because I can see the people and setting of the story. But books mean that I can imagine my own characters and get more details,” Holland said.

Providing a similar take on the debate, Shea Noll, 12, said, “It depends. Books take time to read, and movies are really only a couple of hours long, so sometimes it is just more convenient to watch a story rather than read.” Some books could take days to read, even if the reader is hardly taking breaks from reading, whereas movies usually are not much longer than three hours.

AP Literature teacher Mrs. Lewandowski is 100 percent a fan of books.

“I really like being able to have an inside look at the character’s thoughts, and even if it is written in third person, I can be imaginative,” she said.

Movies do not generally let you hear the inner thoughts of a character, but many books will go into detail on what a character is thinking for even the smallest events in the books.

On the opposite end of the spectrum, Danielle Duncan, 12, is a complete movies watcher. Duncan much prefers to watch a story play out rather than read the details and imagine the characters.

“I haven’t finished a book since 2nd grade, and it was “The World According to Humphrey.”