Comments on: Greening Your Way Into Reading

By: Chris S

Chris S — Fri, 18 Jun 2010 19:37:08 +0000

for those of us who love books, don’t overlook used book stores and book swapping clubs.

paperbackswap is an online swapping club – you list your books and mail to a requestor earning credit to then request a book from someone else. they now have cd and dvd offshoots, as well.

there may other online outlets, but I haven’t looked that deeply.

By: Mike

Mike — Sun, 13 Jun 2010 06:35:25 +0000

You should look up the book Cradle to Cradle. It’s an amazing book with many great ideas that can help us save the environment. The book itself is made out of a plastic polymer from plants. It is a bit heavier than paper books but the pages are waterproof and it is my understanding that they can be recycled very easily.

By: Michael E. Bailey

Michael E. Bailey — Sun, 13 Jun 2010 03:14:33 +0000

I work as a Library Page in my city’s library, and we have been breaking all our old records as far as items being checked out and being brought back in on a regular basis. A couple of weeks ago we broke our previous record set in March. And our Summer Reading Program is just getting ready to start on June 25 and will go through July. It is our busiest period traditionally. WE do have the ebooks that you can download onto your computer at home and they are pretty popular. I don’t know if we have book swapping with major corporate or public offices, but I do know that one of our city’s bookstores does have a program where the bookstore makes large book donations to the library. And the library bookstore is on ebay and sells books across the United States and Foreign countries. Best wishes, Michael E. Bailey.

By: Brenda-EPA

Brenda-EPA — Fri, 11 Jun 2010 15:22:48 +0000

Thank you for all your comments. They are very good feedback!

By: Linda

Linda — Fri, 11 Jun 2010 13:29:29 +0000

My husband and I are both fans of the printed page and are voracious readers. We make use of the local used book stores and also share books freely with friends. If a book turns out not to be a “keeper”, we either take it to the used book store for exchange or donate it to the local thrift shop so others have access to affordable books that are still nearly new.

By: Lina-EPA

Lina-EPA — Thu, 10 Jun 2010 19:37:50 +0000

Gary,
I’m still part of the traditional school, but don’t deny that ebooks have environmental advantages. There’s still something special about getting lost in the actual pages of a book and visiting distant places…..Who knows, it might just be a matter of time for me to get hooked on a Kindle (or some similar electronic tool) as I’m connected to my blackberry.

Question–are they fragile? Would hate to loose all my library if i were to accidentally drop the contraption.

By: Gary N

Gary N — Thu, 10 Jun 2010 18:05:11 +0000

While real books are great, I actually like ebooks better, and keep my whole library on my Kindle. Reading ebooks not only saves in paper, but also cuts back greatly on my visits to book stores, so I burn less gasoline and pollute the air less. Ebooks also are not a physical item that must be shipped from a printing plant to a book store. The carbon footprint reduction seen from ebook use is far more than that associated with the paper.

By: Jackie

Jackie — Thu, 10 Jun 2010 16:08:05 +0000

I’m with you, I love the real books! And getting them from thrift stores, garage sales and libraries is the way to go! Good article.

By: Don Bain

Don Bain — Thu, 10 Jun 2010 16:07:08 +0000

I too am a fan of the book in “book” form, as explained in my animated short http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vRAYn-1xPMI

Just this morning, my librarian reported that on average, every item in the library’s collection is going out 19 times. This is great utilization of the resource and minimizes the book’s carbon impact over a population of readers.