On 2020-09-15 00:14:58 Simon Becherer wrote:
Am 14.09.20 um 18:43 schrieb Dave Howorth:
On Mon, 14 Sep 2020 18:35:37 +0200
Simon Becherer <simon@becherer.de> wrote:
Am 14.09.20 um 18:19 schrieb Peter Suetterlin:
Dave Howorth wrote: ACK. I try to buy only epubs, at most with watermark. Free stuff really should be - well, free :P
REAL PAPER books ??? ;-)) at least after reading you are able to RECYCLE? them as termmal energy..... ...try this with bits and bytes.. they NEED only engery (at least in routers, data brocessing sercvices ....)
The ebook is free. The paper book costs £19.99. Though the author has offered to send me a free paper copy since trying to obtain the electronic version is causing me so much grief. I'm tempted to take her up on it.
And good luck getting back all the embodied energy of a paper book, BTW. As well as the energy embodied in the paper, there's all the energy expended on cutting down trees, transporting them, converting them to paper and card, making ink and glue, printing and binding the book and then distributing it. I'd guess even the last mile delivery uses more energy than an electronic copy costs, but I'm no expert.
just a joke, i think you are right (with the energy management). i like paper books, they look good, feel good and smell good. problem is i get out of walls for storage :-(((((((( .... what about re-using if toilet paper is missing ? ;-)) try this with a ebook ;-))
Relying on ebooks is risky for bibliophiles because, as usual, one is only buying a license to read, not the book itself; and if there's no way to download it (which with Linux is often), one is at the mercy of the holder of the book. Look what happened recently when MacroShaft decided to get out of the epublishing business and summarily shut down their ebook servers; people who "bought" books from them suddenly had nothing. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org