Obviously the act of reading changes when the text is comprised of both words and pictures. When an author uses only text the reader's imagination is left to run wild depending on whether the author wants the reader to imagine everything for themselves or if they want to provide a clear image by using textual descriptions of what they're imagining. When an author provides image along with text they leave little to no room for the reader's imagination because they are observing what the author has provided for them. As a kid and visual learner i preferred to read books with a happy medium; enough text to imagine the story for myself and a few pictures to help understand what the author sees themselves like in Lewis Caroll's Alice's Adventures in Wonderland. This works especially well for kids when they don't exactly understand what is being described. Even though I'm a visual person, I don't mind listening to text and having no images like in a radio play or having a movie on but just listening to it. I feel like i can focus and imagine better by listening than reading text on a page. However, it's a different story when there's image but no text, like in a silent film. I can obviously see what's happening, but with no text to back it up my imagination is freer to interpret all the aspects of the story.
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