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Originally Posted by carpetmojo
Books - paper, ink, leather, faux-leather or plastic, glue, thread ?
Infrastructure - paper-mills, printing shop, transport,postage, some advertising, existing shops and on-line to sell.
Mostly biodegradeable
Readers - well, there's the battery for a start,not good, probably a fair bit of dodgy metals inside the case, a lot of different types of plastic, metals,wiring .........
Infrastructure - metal and plastic manufacture and assembly plants, transport, parts manufacture and sourcing of raw materials, advertising, large technical infrastructure to sell online.
Some bio-degradeable, some not, some not for a long time, and some dangerous.
A bit of a pong sounds fairly liveable with, don't it.........  |
You left the human component off your list carpetmojo. After all books are handled over their lifetimes so at least a little sweat and associated stuff probably bleeds onto the paper too. I've got to say though that I'd never really thought of all what an old book has been exposed to over its lifetime either. Probably a good thing they can't talk and let us know where they've been and who did what.
