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E-book readers like the Amazon Kindle may be popular, but they're not as popular as iPods. Most folks have a hard time rationalizing dropping $300 on a device with limited capabilities that they're only going to have to spend more money on to fill with content. Now many are arguing that e-readers are not a flashy luxury, but yet another way for us to help protect the environment. Recent studies show that, especially for heavy readers, e-books can significantly reduce our carbon footprint and reduce the amount of trees felled to publish printed words.
If you want to save a few trees and lessen your contribution to global warming, then click 'Next' to take a look at some of the best e-reader options out there now, along with a few others that will be released by the end of the year.
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Subscribe to commentsLEESep 13th 2009 6:38AM
WE DEPEND TOO MUCH ON TECHNOLOGY, MARK MY WORDS, WE WILL REGRET IT!!!
lstrmiamSep 13th 2009 7:07AM
Hmm...I'll bet you also built an underground bunker for "Y2K", didn't you. Uh-oh! Are you ready for 2012? I guess the world will end THAT day, too! Better start stockpiling your canned goods!
seeseweasySep 13th 2009 9:22AM
You are so RIGHT!!! We have lost our ability to converse face to face with others and when we do tempers flare. Now I hear that teaching our children the art of cursive writing is a thing of the past. Wake up people!!! Depending too much on technology we will all end up like the song....."In the Year 2525" by Drager and Evens. Aren't familiar with the song? Just Google it. You all know how and that's sad.
amyjohnmyloSep 13th 2009 12:37PM
oh Lee, HOW RIGHT YOU ARE!
RRballetSep 13th 2009 6:04PM
I agree, although it is good that we can help the enviroment in this way. But too much technology can be a problem.
MSUPchanSep 13th 2009 1:12PM
I would usually say someone like you is crazy- but you may be right after all, they talk about protecting the environment- but what about the high amount of toxic plastic that goes into making those eReaders, and when someone's little eBook gets outdated...arent they just gonna trash it and get a new one?
The printed word will NEVER be outdated!
BarrettbooktrdrSep 13th 2009 1:16PM
I WILL NEVER BUY a E-Reader
I like the feel a book in my hand the smell of the pages and the ink. If an author comes to my town and I go to a signing, what am I going to do? Have him sign the shell of a plastic case? Not bring them what has influinced me. made me feel somthing new or thought a new thought? If i go to meet them I want to bring a copy of their work that I treasure. The actual book! If i want to re-read my book in 2 years I can and they cant charge me twice for it. If I want to share my book I can pass it on to a friend and wait for them to return it so we can discuss the likes and dislikes of the the book.
E-readers dont allow you to keep a book in your shelves at home to look through and remember. Times, places, people, all of these imprint on your mind where you were and with whom when you read this story last the weight of the book the feel of the pages, the first lines of the book. ever go to a used book store and open an antique book and find a pressed a flower? You cant press a flower in a E-book of poetry, the memory of someone who read a poem and kept a flower perhaps from a boyfriend and that they read together.
No Give me My books On Paper, Ill Do as i always have and recycle the knowledge by passing it on to my friends or my nearest USED BOOK STORE!
elroynycSep 13th 2009 2:03PM
then why are you on the internet reading the news? Buy a paper...
DUDESep 13th 2009 10:11PM
WELL SAID RRballet
RogloOct 11th 2009 1:38PM
To Belroynyc who said in response to a book lover, " then why are you on the internet reading the news? Buy a paper... " (2:03PM 9-13-09)
and similar postsers:
For the same reason we read books in spite of television, for the same reason many of us collect recipes in spite of micro-wave meals, for the same reason we visit libraries in spite of the internet. Books are an alternative, an additional source of information and inspiration. Books provide, not just an escape that perhaps only book lovers probably can understand: but an emotional, aesthetic appeal that little else offers.
Too, consider this: Some estimates say, ipods, cell phones and ebook readers could take 50,000 years to decompose. Books and other paper items can be recycled and generally take 5-20 years to "return to earth". Technology is definitely grand, but let's not pretend it is the end-all of that so-called "carbon footprint". If we pursue that all tech or nothing attitude, we may just find that the "tech-all" is indeed the END-ALL.
ayyyjayeSep 13th 2009 6:43AM
what the hell?! i dont want to cozy up with technology thank you.
im still going to buy paperbacks & stop trying to tell me (and everyone else) OTHERWISE.
raspberryberet07Sep 13th 2009 11:04AM
YES!!! THANK YOU!!!! I agree 100%!!!
LynnSep 13th 2009 11:46AM
I agree with you. Good for you and keep reading paperbacks. Life is too short, really.
disagtSep 13th 2009 6:55AM
It is vital to protect our environment but some of this go green B.S. is ridiculous. I realize this is just an attempt to sell more gadgets but some algore-type fruitcakes would have us stop printing ALL books and newspapers and stop building houses with lumber.
saint10042004Sep 13th 2009 7:02AM
seriously, we need to reduce using trees, for so many worse reasons than books. books can be used for a long time, they are not going to remain in tact as well as that plastic case and the poison battery inside. by taking everything to technology, you are ruining the best things, reading is too precious to put into such a box. people need to work, we need less pollution, plastic and electronics are not the way. stick to the basics and stop wanting things to be easier, use the knowledge for other things, like medicine. i love my books!
CjgribnerSep 13th 2009 9:05AM
Okay, out here we raise poplar trees that are grown just for pulp wood (in other words to be made into paper). It's a crop, like tomatoes or any other. So, if you want to stop cutting down trees, then you'll have to stop building houses.
jstthinkaboutittSep 13th 2009 7:09AM
Unreal, who the hell wants to read a boom or a newspaper on a small lil thing like that or even on a computer for that matter! I can rea d abook and a paper much faster flipping pages then having to click my way though the whole thing with advertisment pop ups and all kinds of other garbage showing up between pages! Everything comes around full circle and this technology age of immediacy will pass just as fast as it came. We soon will all find out that all these laptops and cellphones are giving us enough contact with radiation from these things that we will all wind up with some form of cancer. And then that will makrd the death of this electronic age and go back to sitting down with ay family and reading a book and a newspaper. We need to go back to our roots in America in order to survive as a country!
sundance sallySep 13th 2009 7:10AM
You can't pass on an e-book when you are done reading it! Pffah! The e-readers
are just future landfill gizmos they way so many beta then vhs tape players were.
You can go to the libary and borrow a book for free! Will that be so with e-readers? Anyone remember when were content with 3 major TV networks
and UHF channel TV that was FREE ???? How will you housetrain that puppy?
Your old e-reader? Look, trees ARE RENEWABLE. Plastics and such are not.
I've been around the ecology movement since the early 1970's. I don't see e-readers as being very ecofriendly to make!
BILLY FERRAROSep 13th 2009 7:10AM
Uh, no. I like holding a book in my hand. I hate, hate reading anthing on line, such as a book. At most I will read a news article here and there, alas here thus the typing...
danielSep 13th 2009 7:18AM
Unreal, who the hell wants to read a boom or a newspaper on a small lil thing like that or even on a computer for that matter! I can rea d abook and a paper much faster flipping pages then having to click my way though the whole thing with advertisment pop ups and all kinds of other garbage showing up between pages! Everything comes around full circle and this technology age of immediacy will pass just as fast as it came. We soon will all find out that all these laptops and cellphones are giving us enough contact with radiation from these things that we will all wind up with some form of cancer. And then that will makrd the death of this electronic age and go back to sitting down with ay family and reading a book and a newspaper. We need to go back to our roots in America in order to survive as a country!