Neither are going to be perfect. I have little problem with paper as long as people are not being wasteful in using it and a recycling everything they can. I still use paper books for my academic work and print out PDFs as I have to be able to highlight and write notes in the margins etc. so I never have to read them twice. But I keep them permanently, or give them away or recycle them (printouts).
Ebooks inherently are better on that front since they don't use paper. But there's still plastic to make them (thus dependence on petroleum), and problems with waste when idiots through them away when they break rather than recycling the device and it's battery properly.
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