Use a Kindle, save the planet
Posted on September 9, 2008
Filed Under All, Context, Green Tech, Technology |
An hour or so ago, I cleaned up the stack of magazines on my nightstand after taking a nap. I brought them out in a bundle, atop which rested my Kindle - I’d just started reading Neal Stephenson’s latest, Anathem, which went on sale today. Looking at the 5-lb. stack of magazines under the 10-ounce Kindle, it struck me that the carbon and other resource costs of those magazines must be staggering, compared to a Kindle download.
Indeed, looking up from my perch here at gulker.com World HQ, I see a shelf groaning under the weight of hard cover editions of Mr. Stephenson’s Cryptonomicon, the 3- volume Baroque Cycle and The Diamond Age (Snow Crash is on a bedroom bookshelf, for some reason). I was thrilled to see Anathem being released on the Kindle simultaneously with the print edition (smart move, HarperCollins) - I will likely buy every Neal Stephenson title - maybe every title - on Kindle from now on. The 900+ page Anathem is very light on the Kindle… Cryptonomicon is on there, too…
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Wonder how many houses could have been built if everyone used the Sony e-book instead of killing all those trees waiting for Kindle.
Ditto if Sony had more wisely marketed its product…