On 13/01/2011 05:11 PM, nemesis wrote:

> Trees are consumed much faster than grown. 20 years to grow one, 1
> minute to bring it down to create some, what, 1000 books? How many books
> are consumed over 20 years, let alone paper for office printing, toilet
> paper, comic book paper, newspaper paper etc?...

1000 books? Damn, that's some small tree...

> eInk doesn't consume much energy. OTOH, I'm unsure about its
> durability... not that it matters if it's cheap.

Manufacturing any type of electronic device consumes pretty large 
amounts of energy, and almost always involves a number of rare metals 
and metaloids. (Arsenic, indium, etc.)

>>>> Besides, who wants a system that can delete the books you've paid for
>>>> at any time, for no defined reason?
>>>
>>> that's plain FUD last time I heard, both from tree killers and
>>> traditional book publishers.
>>
>> Erm, no, it's a documented fact. People actually have had their books
>> deleted. Twice.
>
> once.

That's still not FUD, it's a real event.

> http://www.gutenberg.org/catalog/

So... they carry ancient books that have expired copyright?

> that's one good reason for the web browser, BTW. Another is wikipedia
> always at hand... :)

Wikipedia might be useful. (Assuming you can change the text size of 
that too.) Presumably most of the diagrams won't come out, of course.

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