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Originally Posted by ShellShock
What if some read the graphic novel instead of reading the original? For example, they were about to read the original but then they see the comic and pick that up instead, as being "easier". Is that still OK? What if the graphic novel is studied in school instead of the original? Where do we draw the line, if at all?
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I think that someone, just like you and I, gets to decide what and how they'll read. So that's okay with me. I can't imagine myself preferring a graphic novel to a book but I have no problem with those who do.
I also don't think the graphic novel is likely to be chosen by schools instead of the book but I do know of one situation similar to that. In Texas when I was growing up everybody got Texas history every year. One of the textbooks, usually used in alternate years as I recall, was in graphic form. It was a big thick comic book, with much larger pages than most comic books and probably 2/3" thick. It covered pretty much everything the normal textbook covered and it was probably read by a lot more people. I used to love reading that thing.
I've always enjoyed history so I didn't enjoy that as a way out of reading the usual textbook, but for it's own sake. And it was a decent textbook in it's own right. It had pretty much all the facts of the normal textbook and it put us right in the middle of things as well.
I wouldn't think graphic textbooks should replace normal textbooks but using them along with normal textbooks can be very useful at times.
Barry