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Originally Posted by Robertb
Dear All:
OK, I am biased. I work for Astak and Astak makes eBook Readers. What I noticed years ago at my house was my beautiful hardcover library filled up my bookshelves, spilled into boxes in every cabinet in the house, and started ending up in the attic.
I very frequently like to re-read books. I got SO tired of hunting the bookshelf, the cabinets and the attic to find a great book to reread... only to find my spouse threw it out. Now, with the Astak Pocket PRO holding up to 8,000 eBooks.... I read, put them in folders, and find them in seconds.
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I'm in similar position, with books in an offsite storage facility as well. I did triage, and stored offsite stuff I
wasn't likely to want to reread.
But ebooks haven't stopped me from buying hardcovers. Some books I
want in that format. Where ebooks might well cut into paper book sales is mass market paperbacks.
And I, too, like having a library in my pocket. My device is a PDA, and there are about 3,700 volumes in several formats spread over two 2GB SD cards. A reader isn't a solution for me. I need color support, and a device that does other things besides view books.
For me, ebooks are an additional format, not a replacement.
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Plus I am well aware of the harm that the bleaching of paper (trees are not white pulp) and the clogging of landfill in California causes. So, why go back to hunting through endless boxes when I can carry every book with me everywhere!!
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Unless you can find other things to use for activities like wiping after you go to the bathroom, paper isn't going away any time soon. I'd push for newspapers going electronic as a good way to cut down paper usage, but that's happening as a side effect of economics, not environmental concerns.
And trees are renewable resources, paper can be (and is) recycled, and paper waste is bio degradable. I'd actually be more upset at the environmental impact of semi-conductor manufacturing than I am about the effects of making paper.
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Dennis