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Originally Posted by howyoudoin
I'd have thought that the manufacturing, warehousing and delivery of 33 books would have vastly outweighed the carbon footprint of a single e-reader?
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Like I said - everything I can find in the article uses an iPAD as an "eReader." And according to him the single use eReader is extinct.
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Moreover, it takes almost exactly fifty times as much fossil fuel production to power an iPad for the hours it takes to read a book as it would take to read the same book on paper by electric light.
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Usage figures are an important element in the estimation of a book’s environmental impact. According to Apple, an iPad is responsible for 2.5 grams of CO2e per hour of use.
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Things are trickier than they seem, too. The truth is that the dedicated eReader died almost as soon as it arrived, and it’s since been replaced by items even worse for the environment than its ancestors. What we presently refer to as eReaders are more like all-purpose tablets equipped with email clients, web browsers, games, movie players, and more.
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