Brin: Book / Time = Joy%

 > David Brin:

> Seriously. (May I? For just a moment?)  Next time you contemplate a
> book’s retail price, try dividing it by the number of hours of
> pleasure you’ll get, reading it.  Then tell me of any other pastime
> with a better minutes per pennies ratio of sheer joy!

Video games.  It's easy to see that Good Quality video games gives a 
much better ratio (I'm not talking about all these first person shooter 
games which are basically 100% interchangable and are basically Doom 
clones).

Lets see, you probably get 3-5 times (average) from high quality 
games--Ico, Shadow of the Colossus, etc, You probably get 4-10 times 
from any given Zelda game (including handheld), 2-20 times from High 
quality fighter Games--Soul Caliber, Tekken, etc.  Possibly 100's of 
times from open ended games--Tetris, Angband, Darklands, Minesweeper, etc.

I know I spent more time playing Betray at Krondor than I did reading 
Magician (Apprentice & Master).

Then we get to TV shows/Movies.  The average person probably rewatches 
their favorite TV shows & Movies over and over again, so your conception 
is wrong.