Thread: Why do old books smell? It's the smell of death.
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Old 05-08-2012, 11:03 AM   #25
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Originally Posted by Elfwreck View Post
At the small scale, the paper book technology is definitely less environmentally damaging & more sustainable. However, when we get to several million books... I'm not so sure anymore. 50,000 ereaders each with 150 books on them = 7.5 million books. Is the production of 50k ereaders more invasive than the infrastructure for the publication of 7.5 million paper books?
The "transport" item got kind of buried in there, but it's considerable. A lot of fossil fuel is used up transporting paper books, by-products spewed into the air, and other attendant costs purely of moving books from one part of the country to another.
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