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Originally Posted by thibaulthalpern
The environmental reason you cite that ebook is better than paper doesn't really hold then, because the manufacturing process, use process, recycle process and so forth are all directly applicable to paper production and usage.
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Except... that even given efficient use, a book is printed once, holds exactly one book, and will not hold more... no one erases a book and prints a new one on it... while a PDA can hold hundreds, even thousands of books.
That's hundreds to thousands of books versus one PDA. And when a PDA discards a book, it is not landfilled. So the environmental footprint of a single device does in fact trump the much larger footprint of hundreds to thousands of books.