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Yes, and I have done that occasionally. But I was recently reading a pbook and found myself doing what I do a lot with pbooks: frequently going back and rereading passages about particular characters or events. With an ebook, I never know at the time I first read it which pages to bookmark to do that. So I would have to do a tremendous amount of guessing of what page to find something again. Thumbing just doesn't work with ebooks and I do miss it.
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Before you play the environmental card in support of ereaders, you might want to look at the environmental cost of semi-conductor manufacturing. It is not green,and can't be. You might also consider that electronic devices are classed as toxic waste, requiring special disposal. I had to help close down a facility a few years ago with a lot of computers, terminals, and other gear. We had to hire a licensed contractor to haul away the gear we didn't want to keep. We couldn't just throw it in the trash. Paper, on the other hand, can be recycled, and is, and if it isn't, it's biodegradable. And you might remember that all of those electronic devices require electric power, and consider how that is produced, (Like, I believe the majority of electrical power in the US still comes from coal-fired plants.) and consider the environmental impact of that And paper is a renewable resource. Paper manufacturers maintain forests where they grow their raw material. And wood gets used for a lot of other things besides making paper. How many houses have you seen that don't have wood framing? Or furniture that doesn't have wood in the construction? We aren't going to run out of trees any time soon. Wood has too many uses to permit that to happen. You might just discover that in a "green" contest, paper wins. ______ Dennis Who is firmly in favor of ebooks, and has about 4,000 of them, but does not consider saving paper a major reason for using them. |
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***Nothin' new under the sun...who did this back in the 1800's?***
Yeah, Penny. But these snips are daily, sometimes twice daily. And Dickens and Doyle were notoriously ham-fisted with new technology. N |
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Cocoa & Toast...mmmmmm...
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Today people are accustomed to small snippets...15 second commercials, rapid changing camera shots in film/tv, a hectic lifestyle. Maybe small doses is what modern people like...we aren't, as a whole, a relaxed sort of creature any more. Busy, busy, busy....
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