I think that reading is still important nowadays.
While you are watching that or any other literary work on TV you can't be so absorbed as while reading a book. When you're reading you feel emotional experiences of heroes more deeper as if you are the hero yourself. Books are very convenient to have a leisure time. As for me I really have a rest with books. The most part of information I have got from books. Possibility of books are much more wider than anything else. By means of words books convey any emotions and descriptions while films are limited in their possibilities.
If I'm given a choice what to read, first of all I'll read classic novels. Detective is possible, it depends of my mood. I don't like thrillers because I think it's an imaginations of ill mind. On my opinion books are the main source of knowledges, good books will never die, it is tested by time