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Stick a book under your laptop.
by cle 2y ago
Stick a book under your laptop.
- nozzlegear 2y agoWhat's the carbon cost behind buying and shipping the book, or cutting down the tree to make the book?
- redundantly 2y agoThey didn't say to buy a book just for this.
- recursive 2y agoAssuming you don't have a book in your possession?
- dylan604 2y agothis is actually more common place than you might expect. just like wearing tube socks vs ankle socks has become some sort of age delineation, owning books is as well.
- borski 2y agoThis makes me so sad.
- dylan604 2y agoI have no books that have any value other than I already own them. After moving across the country a couple of times with them plus all of the other various moves, I have thought about getting rid of them numerous times. The only reason I have not is just sheer laziness on taking them some place. My most recent move left them in boxes and just stored.
- borski 2y agohttps://x.com/paulg/status/1860692810279559283 https://x.com/paulg/status/1860692810279559283
- 0xffff2 2y agoI'm old enough to have owned a lot of paper books at one point, but as a Kindle owner and person who moves every few years, I no longer own any physical books. For fiction and non-fiction prose, I find an e-reader to be strictly superior to the paper version. I've even embraced e-cookbooks. The UX is markedly inferior while cooking, but the convenience of not having to move boxes and boxes of paper around with me is worth it.
- cle 2y agoUse whatever's lying around. Some more ideas: - A shoebox - An old binder - A food container - Some coasters - Egg carton - Jenga blocks - Cereal box - Legos - Picture frame - Tennis ball (cut it in half) - Door stoppers - Cake pan - A screwdriver box - A few junk mailer magazines - Crumple up a couple newspaper pages Or better yet, order one of these and make 3 more with the shipping box it came in. That'll help once it wears out, or you accidentally sit on it.
- toast0 2y agoNot sure how many cereal boxes can hold a laptop... unless you're stacking them flattened, and then you need to eat a lot of cereal, but you can adjust height very precisely. :)
- redundantly 2y agoA cereal box is likely thicker than the material used in the product this article talks about. It wouldn't take very many folds to prop up a notebook.
- wiseowise 2y agoWhat an amazing idea. Carry 2kg book of necessary size instead of foldable cardboard. Truly genius.