Comments on: Save Trees and Read Green with a Kindle

By: JOE

JOE — Tue, 24 Jan 2012 03:24:03 +0000

I personally think the kindle is great and it saves trees. With its eink we use less paper killing off less trees and if we don’t need the kindle any more we can pass it on to future generations.

By: Quora

Quora — Mon, 11 Oct 2010 08:13:40 +0000

Has Silicon Valley stopped truly innovating?…

No it hasn’t. At least where I work. The eReaders didn’t exist few years ago, and the most popular and genre defining one (the Kindle) was developed here in Silicon Valley (Mountain View and then Cupertino). It is truly a new kind of device, al…

By: Frank

Frank — Sun, 18 Apr 2010 16:03:44 +0000

Basically agree with everybody here. The kindle is still pretty gimmicky and is not the last reading thingy you will ever have to buy. I am sure every couple of years you will have to upgrade, just like computers.

1. Electronic products are not exactly things you could put in your compost heap. But it would be nice to browse periodicals without having to subscribe to all of them. My reading room pretty much has an inner fort of newspapers in it as we speak.

2. Those “earth friendly (not)” batteries will need to be replaced every few years

3. And nobody mentions that looking at an electronic screen at close distance is HARDER on your eyes than a book. I mean come on people. When is the last time reading an actual book made your eyes sore. Books are far safer for your health on that aspect alone.
(You can argue that the text size on books is small and the kindle has text size adjustment feature so kindle wins that argument.)

When they can cook up a device that has a reading technology that does not involve radiation of any kind then we will be there. But not yet and probably not for a while.

By: John

John — Tue, 23 Mar 2010 20:27:12 +0000

Its all about money, publishers and retailers make more money when the book or magazine is in an electronic format. Electronic books and magazines have their advantages, but they do more harm to the environment then printed books. Around 10%-30% greater impact. “M Enroth, Environmental impact of printed and electronic teaching aids. Vol 36 2009″ And paper comes from a renewable resource – Trees.
Every day the paper and forest products industry plants more than three times the number of trees than are harvested — paper is truly renewable and sustainable.
Electronic devices are typically made of plastics and other non-renewable resources and often contain chemicals and metals.

By: The Hermit

The Hermit — Fri, 05 Feb 2010 19:28:05 +0000

Well, I don’t know if the Kindle is green or not, but I do know that my blog is available on the Kindle, and I lead a VERY green lifestyle… My border collie and I are building an off the grid green home in the middle of nowhere… http://www.hermitblog.com

Thanks for the article!

By: Green nPower Personal Energy Generator | The Chic Ecologist

Green nPower Personal Energy Generator | The Chic Ecologist — Tue, 02 Feb 2010 23:55:48 +0000

[...] you can be your own recharging station to all of your USB enabled devices. Cell phones, iPods, Kindles, GPS units, and just about any other hand-held electronic device can be charged by this renewable [...]

By: TJ

TJ — Sun, 24 Jan 2010 18:08:34 +0000

What are the environmental impacts of manufacturing the Kindle? There is a lot of tech in a Kindle, so there has to be some negative to it, right? These are manufactured in Asia, so overall, is the Kindle still “green”? What is the total usage to cover the “environmental impact” of its manufacturing process?

By: Analfabetismo Digitale « Almanacco Americano

Analfabetismo Digitale « Almanacco Americano — Fri, 09 Oct 2009 16:32:12 +0000

[...] Non vorrei concludere con il pensierino sull’analfabetismo, ma visto che spesso si dice che Kindle risparmia carta e salva le foreste (anche questa un bufala non indifferente, cosi’ a occhio e croce), forse vale la pena anche [...]