Visual vs. Text

Personally, when I have to choose between pictures vs. text, I choose text because of all the descriptive writing. This helps you create pictures inside your head, just like a movie. Everybody has their own imagination of characters in the book and portraits them differently. 

            But there are some cons about text, and pros about pictures and movies. A text could be forgotten if not descriptive enough or if the reader skips the line by accident. The author cannot describe every feature to a character’s face, but a picture can. So every time somebody looks at the picture, there is always one extra detail they didn't notice and that causes them to think over the character's looks again.    

            When somebody reads a sentence such as “David smiled for joy when he saw Maria”, they won’t feel the joy and happiness David was feeling at the moment, but only count it as a bunch of words. When someone sees a picture, they can relate to the character, and enough to make them smile too for another person’s happiness. And in sorrow, the person cries along with the picture’s mood and background that make it melancholy. And because everybody pictures a different image when the author is describing it in the book, you can compare the actual character to your imagination.