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Originally Posted by axel77
A pbook is sustainable. As said made of 100% renewable material, with good treatment can last for several hundred years, high quality prints could even last for thousands of years. It is 100% recycleable... paper is one of the few techs that actually really works well!
eBook device have many advantages though, like quickly retrievable, easy carry, access anywhere, on complicated texts possibilities to have social tagging, quick access to additional information to a text, to dictionaries, and so on. I just don't consider environment as their primary sales point, nor is it IMHO a good idea to market it as such.
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How much material and energy does "good treatment" require? How do you know that extra energy and material for good treatment is sustainable?
Again, without a special environment controlled space paper lasting hundreds and thousand years is not going to happen. Canada mostly had wooden forts and pallisades. Most are long gone now after only 200 years or so. And that was solid wood. Compared to a DVD disk in a simple plastic case you could simply bury in ground and it will last a long time.
As for environment ....
pBook will last *ONLY* when you keep humidity down. That is why we have paper from Egypt where dry deserts have very little moisture. However, most of the planet has a lot of moisture.
So tell me then, how much power will a dehumidifier use to keep your pBook intact for 1000 years????
You should realize that any way you look at it pBooks use far more energy and material than eBooks. It is no contest.