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``Real'' books are an environmental nightmare. One e-reader can save countless trees.
by z_open 9y ago
``Real'' books are an environmental nightmare. One e-reader can save countless trees.
- trentmb 9y ago... and the impact of moving them around. Granted, I'm guilty of printing my ebooks regularly.
- creep 9y agoThis is true, but our bodies are made for the physical environment and our brains are "wired" around physical location and mapping. This quality is completely absent in e-readers, often resulting in less information retained, and books dropped due to unreadability. If it works for you, that's cool. But I'll stick to the physical.
- MilnerRoute 9y agoMaybe. I'm not sure I'd call old books an "environmental nightmare." (They're made of paper, so in theory they can just be recycled -- or at least degrade back into natural elements?) Meanwhile, the electronic parts in old Kindles have a bit of an environmental impact too -- and are probably harder to get recycled.