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Always wanted to ask, do you read fiction? It's like watching a movie for me, can't imagine reading would be any fun otherwise.
Also have it, the fun parts of fiction for me are the dialog and (being a scifi nerd) the thought experiments. Most of my reading focuses heaviest on what's being said by the characters - which, luckily, happens to be where most of the meat occurs anyway. Long descriptive sections just kinda go by like white noise, though I try to catch and remember any important notes that may be referred to later, but more as concepts - e.g., "big wall" as a concept, not an image. If you ask me for the physical description of a character in a book in which they have been physically described, odds are high I'd come up empty, but I could probably give you a solid summary of their character as they have acted and based on what they've said.
Seeing a book like a movie seems extremely limiting to me.
There's so much more depth to books than to film. Limiting them to the visual aspect would be like ripping off 90% of the pages.