Very well said. I couldn't agree more. Both could coexist well together. A printed book doesn't need a plug to recharge any electronic device and you can loan it to others or read it for free from a public library. But yes, thinking of all the trees cut down is not pleasant. I am not sure what the ecological impact of an e-reader is, but considering that you can have so many of books on it, it's probably not that bad.
There are many who claim that e-readers, in any form whatever, are shit, and that what you get to read on them is only crap. But I guess that are only people afraid of technology. There's a lot of great and meaningful stuff in electronic form to read, as well as there's a lot of crap that gets printed, making one feel sorry for the poor trees sacrificed to end up like that.
Technically, e-readers, like any other computer, are pollutants too, because they have plastic parts and metal parts too. But as you pointed, one can save hundreds or more of books on them, and usually you have one for many years. Printed books mean deforestation and the ink used is not very nature-friendly either. Both, printed books and e-readers can be recycled, though.
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Technically, e-readers, like any other computer, are pollutants too, because they have plastic parts and metal parts too. But as you pointed, one can save hundreds or more of books on them, and usually you have one for many years. Printed books mean deforestation and the ink used is not very nature-friendly either. Both, printed books and e-readers can be recycled, though.
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