I suspect WB is talking abut the effects of the iPad destroying your sight, Bruce. I would hope so. Computer radiations from the screens are still no fully examined.
But the HazMats in the devices will still be there, when all the cellulose and lignin and soy ink have long since been returned to the biome as plant food.
Read happily, however you can! Read to a kid, and get them all hooked on it! Then hope we can get out of their way quick enough.
^Bruce; sadly, in many cases, old books (I’m thinking from the fifties, on acid paper, turning brown - not centuries old, on vellum, still usable) do wind up in landfills.
Now we have Google Books, and the Gutenberg Project, making works (especially out-of-copyright) available on-line.
^Free; an LCD, with LED backlight, won’t have the X-ray problems that big CRTs still do, but there are still eyestrain problems with our displays.
I still have a pair of Prio computer glasses, based on the idea that our eye tries to focus on a fuzzy-edged set of pixels instead of a crisp printed word on a page, then relaxes to focus somewhere at the neck of a CRT; over and over. Higher resolution displays may improve that situation, but (with new ownership), they’re still in business.
SherriannPederson about 14 years ago
Who reads for more than 10 hours a day?
Plug the thing in every night when you recharge your cell phone….
Read a paperback, hardcover or book on an ipad…. whatever you prefer!!!
Gladius about 14 years ago
I have done so before. Not usually, I admit.
WarBush about 14 years ago
The difference between the two is that one of them will not destroy your eyesight in a few years.
freeholder1 about 14 years ago
I suspect WB is talking abut the effects of the iPad destroying your sight, Bruce. I would hope so. Computer radiations from the screens are still no fully examined.
CorosiveFrog Premium Member about 14 years ago
The difference?
One of them is a fad and will be thrown out as soon as a new guizmo comes in.
pbarnrob about 14 years ago
But the HazMats in the devices will still be there, when all the cellulose and lignin and soy ink have long since been returned to the biome as plant food.
Read happily, however you can! Read to a kid, and get them all hooked on it! Then hope we can get out of their way quick enough.
CorosiveFrog Premium Member about 14 years ago
^^ But more time to decompose
Gladius about 14 years ago
Not in my household.
myming about 14 years ago
i love it !!!
why pay for that thing when you can read for free ?
pbarnrob about 14 years ago
^Bruce; sadly, in many cases, old books (I’m thinking from the fifties, on acid paper, turning brown - not centuries old, on vellum, still usable) do wind up in landfills.
Now we have Google Books, and the Gutenberg Project, making works (especially out-of-copyright) available on-line.
^Free; an LCD, with LED backlight, won’t have the X-ray problems that big CRTs still do, but there are still eyestrain problems with our displays.
I still have a pair of Prio computer glasses, based on the idea that our eye tries to focus on a fuzzy-edged set of pixels instead of a crisp printed word on a page, then relaxes to focus somewhere at the neck of a CRT; over and over. Higher resolution displays may improve that situation, but (with new ownership), they’re still in business.