http://www.switched.com/2009/09/12/suddenly-earth-friendly-e-readers-are-everywhere/ Switched Comments for Suddenly, Earth-Friendly E-Readers Are Everywhere http://www.switched.com/media/feedlogo.gif http://www.switched.com en-us Copyright 2012 Weblogs, Inc. The contents of this feed are available for non-commercial use only. Blogsmith http://www.blogsmith.com/http://www.switched.com/2009/09/12/suddenly-earth-friendly-e-readers-are-everywhere/http://www.switched.com/2009/09/12/suddenly-earth-friendly-e-readers-are-everywhere/Sep 13th 2009 6:38AMhttp://www.switched.com/2009/09/12/suddenly-earth-friendly-e-readers-are-everywhere/http://www.switched.com/2009/09/12/suddenly-earth-friendly-e-readers-are-everywhere/Sep 13th 2009 7:07AMhttp://www.switched.com/2009/09/12/suddenly-earth-friendly-e-readers-are-everywhere/http://www.switched.com/2009/09/12/suddenly-earth-friendly-e-readers-are-everywhere/Sep 13th 2009 9:22AMhttp://www.switched.com/2009/09/12/suddenly-earth-friendly-e-readers-are-everywhere/http://www.switched.com/2009/09/12/suddenly-earth-friendly-e-readers-are-everywhere/Sep 13th 2009 12:37PMhttp://www.switched.com/2009/09/12/suddenly-earth-friendly-e-readers-are-everywhere/http://www.switched.com/2009/09/12/suddenly-earth-friendly-e-readers-are-everywhere/Sep 13th 2009 6:04PMhttp://www.switched.com/2009/09/12/suddenly-earth-friendly-e-readers-are-everywhere/http://www.switched.com/2009/09/12/suddenly-earth-friendly-e-readers-are-everywhere/
The printed word will NEVER be outdated!]]>Sep 13th 2009 1:12PMhttp://www.switched.com/2009/09/12/suddenly-earth-friendly-e-readers-are-everywhere/http://www.switched.com/2009/09/12/suddenly-earth-friendly-e-readers-are-everywhere/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! ]]>Sep 13th 2009 1:16PMhttp://www.switched.com/2009/09/12/suddenly-earth-friendly-e-readers-are-everywhere/http://www.switched.com/2009/09/12/suddenly-earth-friendly-e-readers-are-everywhere/Sep 13th 2009 2:03PMhttp://www.switched.com/2009/09/12/suddenly-earth-friendly-e-readers-are-everywhere/http://www.switched.com/2009/09/12/suddenly-earth-friendly-e-readers-are-everywhere/Sep 13th 2009 10:11PMhttp://www.switched.com/2009/09/12/suddenly-earth-friendly-e-readers-are-everywhere/http://www.switched.com/2009/09/12/suddenly-earth-friendly-e-readers-are-everywhere/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.


]]>Oct 11th 2009 1:38PMhttp://www.switched.com/2009/09/12/suddenly-earth-friendly-e-readers-are-everywhere/http://www.switched.com/2009/09/12/suddenly-earth-friendly-e-readers-are-everywhere/im still going to buy paperbacks & stop trying to tell me (and everyone else) OTHERWISE.]]>Sep 13th 2009 6:43AMhttp://www.switched.com/2009/09/12/suddenly-earth-friendly-e-readers-are-everywhere/http://www.switched.com/2009/09/12/suddenly-earth-friendly-e-readers-are-everywhere/Sep 13th 2009 11:04AMhttp://www.switched.com/2009/09/12/suddenly-earth-friendly-e-readers-are-everywhere/http://www.switched.com/2009/09/12/suddenly-earth-friendly-e-readers-are-everywhere/Sep 13th 2009 11:46AMhttp://www.switched.com/2009/09/12/suddenly-earth-friendly-e-readers-are-everywhere/http://www.switched.com/2009/09/12/suddenly-earth-friendly-e-readers-are-everywhere/Sep 13th 2009 6:55AMhttp://www.switched.com/2009/09/12/suddenly-earth-friendly-e-readers-are-everywhere/http://www.switched.com/2009/09/12/suddenly-earth-friendly-e-readers-are-everywhere/Sep 13th 2009 7:02AMhttp://www.switched.com/2009/09/12/suddenly-earth-friendly-e-readers-are-everywhere/http://www.switched.com/2009/09/12/suddenly-earth-friendly-e-readers-are-everywhere/Sep 13th 2009 9:05AMhttp://www.switched.com/2009/09/12/suddenly-earth-friendly-e-readers-are-everywhere/http://www.switched.com/2009/09/12/suddenly-earth-friendly-e-readers-are-everywhere/Sep 13th 2009 7:09AMhttp://www.switched.com/2009/09/12/suddenly-earth-friendly-e-readers-are-everywhere/http://www.switched.com/2009/09/12/suddenly-earth-friendly-e-readers-are-everywhere/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!]]>Sep 13th 2009 7:10AMhttp://www.switched.com/2009/09/12/suddenly-earth-friendly-e-readers-are-everywhere/http://www.switched.com/2009/09/12/suddenly-earth-friendly-e-readers-are-everywhere/Sep 13th 2009 7:10AMhttp://www.switched.com/2009/09/12/suddenly-earth-friendly-e-readers-are-everywhere/http://www.switched.com/2009/09/12/suddenly-earth-friendly-e-readers-are-everywhere/Sep 13th 2009 7:18AM