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Originally Posted by HarryT
But can you show that the number of books printed is reduced by even one, as a result of you buying an eBook reader? One might play "devil's advocate" and say that eBook readers are a bad thing, in that they produce additional environmental pollution, while having no material benefit whatsoever in terms of reducing the number of printed books produced.
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Right. So, in order to resolve that issue, let's stop printing so many books. Environmentally-speaking, we would be better off severely cutting back on paper production and printing and undergoing widespread adoption of e-books, than giving up on e-books and continuing our present paper production habits.