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emoorman, good post, good questions.
A sometimes reader of this website, who has requested anonymity,-- and it's not me, my mind doesn't move in this direction very well but his does, -- has coined a very interesting word, maybe interesting, maybe not, --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?
Emoorman, since your initial post was about green issues here, I posted part of my thread frm another thread here here. Feel free to delete if you feel it's off-topic... or go to the "vaporpapers" thread if it hasn't sunk to the bottom of the page already....
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