@thomasfuchs Just an anecdote, but: I liked the clips I saw of Murderbot on YouTube but wasn't about to go buy an Apple TV subscription because we are already drowning in subscription services.
... so I picked up the first book. And the next. And the next. This is the most pleasure-reading I've done in years, and it utterly displaced doom-scrolling for awhile. Pretty sure I've now spent more on ebooks than I would have spent on six months of AppleTV.
Martha Wells. "The Murderbot Diaries." A++ would recommend.