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Originally Posted by carpetmojo
Indeed, the nasty stuffs in your little innocent reader are extremely damaging environmentally, and the production of them, and the manufacturing process involved in the building of them, rather negate your suggestion.
And, as mentioned, the raw material for paper books are now mostly replaced.
No, I'm afraid we aren't saving the world with all our gadget acquisitioning.....  |
If you read only a few ebooks and then replace the ereader then yes...this is more wasteful than just buying the books. But if you reuse the ereader many times eventually it will become more efficient...just as a ceramic cup will be more efficient than paper cups after many reuses.
also, we are in a phase where ereaders are new so there are many innovations and we replace them frequently...eventually it will be a mature technology and the replacement cycle will greatly lengthen....just like with TV technology.