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Originally Posted by TadW
In the article they seem to talk a lot about protection of the environment through shifting to e-paper which is complete nonsense if you ask me. A study I've seen recently seen shows that the indirect damage by using an e-book reader (battery, hardware trash, time spent online, etc.) is at least as bad for the environment as cutting trees. Before someone claims the opposite, I'd like to see proof.
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I'm sure they are referring to the economy (or, in this case, environmental benefits) of scale. In other words, if an Iliad can be potentially used to replace hundreds, even thousands of books, then the production of one e-book reader can be said to be more environmentally friendly than the production of thousands of books.
It would be interesting to see someone develop a scale that compares productin of each, and arrives at a distinct number for comparison and sales use--i.e., "Iliad production and power consumption is equal to the production and power consumption of 500,000 print pages," or 1/500,000 EPQ (electronic-to-paper quotient).