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A sometimes reader of this website, who has requested anonymity, and it's not me this time, my mind doesn't move in this direction very well but his does, and he has coined a very interesting word -- VAPORPAPERS -- As far as I can tell, given that the end of originality is always near in word-minting worlds, especially given the speed and bandwidth of the Internet, it appears at this moment in Internet Time that the newly-minted term VAPORPAPERS has not reached any of Google's spiders -- at least not in the sense that it has been coined.

Electronic print fans, especially green ones, might take umbrage at the coining of VAPORPAPERS, true. But you must admit, there's still no plan for the long-term preservation of e-book contents. Is there? If so, dish here.

And think about this too: The environmental and disposal costs of producing and recycling rapidly obsolescent e-readers is likely to be more serious than the well-established system of sustainable forests. The coiner of the word VAPORPAPERS asked me to ask anyone who knows......just what ARE the actual components (and future environmental impacts) of an iPad or a Kindle or nook?

Hamlet didn't carry a BlackBerry, for a very good reason. He had his own erasable tablet. Worked quite well for him then. Then came the print. Now comes the Digital Revolution. Ou va la France?

PS: I did not coin this word. A gentleman in distant land coined it the other day and asked me to post this thread just to garner reactions pro and con. I am not really sure what he is driving at, but I like all new words when they prod people into thinking. I am not sure I like the word or really understand what he meant. BTW, this man is NOT an enemy of the Digital Revolution, nor is he a sworn protector of Mr Paper; he is far smarter than this or that. But he asked me to post this for him, and I think it might be an interesting chat. I am just relaying an idea here ... to the board, since most people here have thought deeply about all this. Dish!