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Old 06-22-2012, 07:20 AM   #11
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Originally Posted by taustin View Post
It's a lot more complicated than how much power a tablet uses while you're on it. There's a lot more energy involved in making one than in making a book. And green means a lot more than just power consumed. Computer circuit boards are known to involve a lot of very message manufacturing processes, and there's the disposal of the worn out ones afterwards. Paper books can be put in a landfill; computer stuff cannot (especially the lithium based .
So your underlying premise is to compare the resources used to manufacture just one book and maybe read it in the dark ... To a tablet which may hold several thousand books?

As if people were making a new tablet for each one?
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