[Steven Lyle Jordan]

Originally Posted by TommyCooper

I would like to see some in-depth and [relatively] independent studies done on the comparative overall energy usage, environmental damage and things like long term health effects of electronic devices.

There have been similar discussions on the subject elsewhere on this site... here, for instance.

The gist of the subject is that, although paper is a renewable resource, an e-book reader can potentially replace hundreds, even thousands of paper books, and so achieves an economy of scale that paper production will never match.