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Originally Posted by dmaul1114
In that case, I'd stick with my paper books, journals, printouts of journal articles etc. for all my academic works.
I'm not going to change the way I work--ebooks have to be at least as functional for me as paper books or I won't use them. And I'm fine with that since I'm seldom paying for academic books, paper or ink to print them out etc. If something doesn't come along that fits my personal needs/wants, thats fine by me. I won't buy something that doesn't satisfy my needs.
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but doesn't evolution require change? - many people refused to give up their typewriters when word processors and eventually computers displaced them. It does not mean typewriters were bad or computers were good, its just a new way of doing things. I think most would agree though, except for nostalgic reasons, they would never use a typewriter now instead of computer?
You may not pay for textbooks and paper to print them up, but the forests do and the landfills do. I would not consider myself a treehugger in the classical sense, but iv'e had a realization of late that we have the means to curtail our paper addition, but we simply choose not to becuase it requires a little extra effort on our parts.
The human race show no signs of slowing down in it's population expansion and at the same time we increase our individual gross consumption.
I know its hard; we think that whatever one person does could not possibly make a difference,but if everyone takes the same stance then we are guaranteed not to make a difference. Change is hard, there is no doubt, but if we are all willing to just read that one paper, that one report, that one email, or that one book online instead of printing it, soon we will look back in amazement about how we used to cut down millions of trees a year and lug around reams of paper just to get our daily fix of information