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I was also thinking of the movie A Civil Action with John Travolta, where he plays a lawyer who goes in way over his head to represent claimants in a local health lawsuit. A bit more of a personal drama, but similar. |
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Oh, yeah, I really enjoy Stephenson. The Sony Store seems to have most of his work at a somewhat decent price but Zodiac is missing. He's got a new novel coming out soon, too. Not so big on the Travolta though
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Not sure if this has been posted before, but someone gave some thoughts on the Esquire E Ink cover and its potential environmental impact:
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Not that I trust the numbers but they have the right idea.
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08-22-2008, 10:08 AM | #82 |
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It's like the question of a ceramic cup versus a paper cup. The ceramic cup impacts the environment much more when u compare 1 to 1 and this is built into the price as the ceramic cup costs much more.
However, since the ceramic cup is reusable....eventually after so many uses it becomes both more economical and less a lower load on the environment. If the ceramic cup costs $2 to make and the paper cup costs 5 cents to make (made up numbers)....after using the paper cup 40 times...it'll start to be more expensive and with a higher load on the environment (most likely but just an estimate)....might take less than that. so it is with the ereader. you'd probably have to read 40 books for the ereader to be become green. so it depends on how many books u read and how long u have the device. if u buy another device every year and only read like 20 books....then u are actually making the environment worse most likely |
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I agree in principle with markbot, however I think his estimate of the "Break even" point being somewhere around 40 books read.
It'd be very complicated to work out and I haven't done it to be sure. My gut feel however is that he's probably off by an order of magnitude. If people would keep their ebook readers past the break even point then they're "green". If not, not. Where that break even point is is very difficult to determine. My suspicion is that I will never keep an ebook reader until it's past it's break even point. I like new gadgets/toys/features too much to keep a unit that long. There are many like me who want to keep on top of advances in consumer electronics. The whole issue of e-waste is HUGE. It'd be nice to think of the trees we're saving by not consuming our media that way, but I think that in reality ebook readers are much worse. |
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Wired magazine published an analysis of the ceramic cup example, and I believe one had to use the same ceramic cup for 5 years to offset the environmental impact compared to paper. Not that one can draw any comparisons between cups and ebook readers, but I was surprised at how high the environmental impact of the ceramic cup was.
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Another thing that needs to be considered is book storage. I used to have a serious Amazon habit (2-3 books per week).
Now if I had been able to get ebooks then I could have bought a smaller house. That would have been cheaper and easier to heat (though books do insulate a room). |
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