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Entertainment is any experience that is amusing or enthralling, and can involve a wide range of activities from watching films or listening to music to playing games or participating in sports (1,2). It has a strong association with pleasure and fun and may be purely recreational. However, some entertainments can have a serious purpose. For example, the story of Scheherazade, a character from professional storytelling traditions, inspired Rimsky-Korsakov to compose an orchestral work, Pasolini to make a film and video games to develop innovative retellings of the tale (1,3).