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Originally Posted by flipreads
With eBooks, however, if you're reading (or re-reading) a book, you're possibly leaving a carbon footprint since you're expending electricity (or rather, the device needs to be charged in order to be used).
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Charging one of those power hungry Android based ereaders overnight is equivalent to cooking a simple meal for for 5 to 10 minutes. That would amount to planting a single tree every 3 years to account for the carbon footprint based on electricity use.
Of course, that is making some non-so-generous assumptions. In reality, the charging process probably uses far less electricity than I'm suggesting. Eink readers are also much more energy efficient than the Android based one I based the calculations on.