I do not think that a novel will be replaced by a book. There is so much about books that you cannot get frm manga or graphic novels. Here is just a comment to what Rye said though. Manga (or the few I have read) can, at times, have deepr meanings than what you see at the surface. For instance, Sailor Moon. Sure she is a teenager going around in a short skirt saving the world, but that is only superficial. Underlinening the whole plot of the entirity is the idea that both good and evil were orn as one, seperated at birth, and they constantly attract each other, striving to unify. Obviously to get that from Sailor Moon you have to read all of it, especially towards the end. But there are more themes under surface. I am not saying that they are anywhere close to my favorite books, but still there is more than meets the eye. I will never give up on my novels, no matter how picky I am.