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It seems we get this once a year....
I did buy an e-reader because it was a green option. I got my first Kindle in 2008 and I have over 500 books. At this moment I have three Kindles. I was given the K1, bought a DXG because I wanted the new screen and bigger screen, and bought a K3 about a year later because I wanted something more portable for travel and the new screen. My Mom has a DXG (well, two, she lost one).
So five Kindle purchased on my Kindle account. That is 100 books per Kindle.
On top of that, I cancelled my newspaper and magazine subscriptions and only get them on Kindle, or now for my IPad. I specifically sign up for the digital only subscriptions. So that was cancelling the New York Times, Washington Post, Financial Times, Economist, National Geographic, and Smithsonian paper versions. That right there probably saved more then a few trees.
Never mind the savings that come from driving to and from the store, shipping costs, and all that fun.
Oh, and the fact that all of these devices can be recycled and if people were to do so, the enviromental damage would be a great deal less. We have two boxes of electronics waiting to be recycled. This includes old VCR's, printers, radios, cell phones, a collection of batteries, and the like just waiting for my hubby to go to the dump where they have recycling for electronics and batteries.
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