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Tomorrow is World Book Day so I thought I'd start a discussion on books.
Do you think people read less now than before? How many books do you read in a year?
I'm still undecided over whether to read the new Hitch-hikers Guide to the Galaxy book. In a way it feels wrong that it's a HHGTTG book without Adams writing it, but I also want to see how well it fits.
I must admit that I don't read half as much as I did, it's very hard to sit down with a book when you have kids. I guess I read stuff on the internet more at the moment but I'd love the chance to get back in to reading properly. I'm a member of Amazon Vine, which lets you test out specific products each month and there are loads of books from new and old authors on there, so it's a good way of getting me to read something. Sometimes it's a pleasant surprise and at other times it's a slog to get through a book.
Do you think people read less now than before? How many books do you read in a year?
I'm still undecided over whether to read the new Hitch-hikers Guide to the Galaxy book. In a way it feels wrong that it's a HHGTTG book without Adams writing it, but I also want to see how well it fits.
I must admit that I don't read half as much as I did, it's very hard to sit down with a book when you have kids. I guess I read stuff on the internet more at the moment but I'd love the chance to get back in to reading properly. I'm a member of Amazon Vine, which lets you test out specific products each month and there are loads of books from new and old authors on there, so it's a good way of getting me to read something. Sometimes it's a pleasant surprise and at other times it's a slog to get through a book.
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Garin wrote:
> Gold Timbo wrote:
> But surely the production costs and carbon footprint of
> upgrading
> a world supply of e-book players every few years would have just
> as much impact as the amount of paper created to make books?
>
> Oh, not to mention the electricity costs of running them all.
> Books don't drain any power sat on a shelf after being produced.
>
> The point is if you cut down all our trees we're all dead.
> Admittedly that would reduce our carbon footprint significantly.
> :)
Aye true, but it isn't trees being cut down for books which is having that sort of impact. There are a lot of trees in the world, wood needed for books amounts a tiny fraction of those trees (possibly), the actual problem is they aren't being used reasonably on a global scale.
And besides, I buy a lot of books printed on recycled paper, and it often tends to be the way they're printed these days.
I know what you're saying though.
> Gold Timbo wrote:
> But surely the production costs and carbon footprint of
> upgrading
> a world supply of e-book players every few years would have just
> as much impact as the amount of paper created to make books?
>
> Oh, not to mention the electricity costs of running them all.
> Books don't drain any power sat on a shelf after being produced.
>
> The point is if you cut down all our trees we're all dead.
> Admittedly that would reduce our carbon footprint significantly.
> :)
Aye true, but it isn't trees being cut down for books which is having that sort of impact. There are a lot of trees in the world, wood needed for books amounts a tiny fraction of those trees (possibly), the actual problem is they aren't being used reasonably on a global scale.
And besides, I buy a lot of books printed on recycled paper, and it often tends to be the way they're printed these days.
I know what you're saying though.
I don't think it really matters wether a book is digital or paper. Digitally, you don't have the same environmental issues as paper books at all, and it's also easier to carry round many books at the same time. Simple things like finding the page that you're on is easier aswell. Myself, I prefer the idea of electronic books, but I'd never use them oddly. If your battery runs out, you can't continue reading, that's one problem with electronic books :P And also the fact that classic publishers would go out of buisness, unless they transferred to producing eBooks.
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