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"It's not cut and dried," said Mike Berners-Lee, a professor of sustainability at Lancaster Environment Centre in the United Kingdom, of the comparative climate friendliness of digital versus print reading.
Berners-Lee, the author of The Carbon Footprint of Everything, said the average e-reader has a carbon footprint of around 80 pounds.
"This means that I've got to read about 36 small paperback books-worth on it before you break even," he said.
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lol, okay
I still remember seeing a silly claim that eReaders were worse for the environment, but they based it on someone replacing their eReader every year (!).