There's been much discussion about how environmentally friendly an e-book is compared to the traditional kind (you know, the ones with paper and ink and stuff).
From a piece in the Telegraph...
All this is provoking furious debate among better-read American environmentalists. Gadget-lovers point out that the US printed word causes 125 million trees to be felled every year. The bookish retort that the e-readers take more energy to make, consume electricity, contain more chemicals, and create a greater waste problem when thrown away.
Several studies have come to the unsurprising conclusion that it all depends on how many books you read, though they differ on the number. One reckoned that you would have to get through 40 electronically each year to come out ahead, another made that 23, while a third concluded that the carbon produced in making each e-reader would be recovered by the trees it left standing in just 12 months.
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