Books Are Better Than Paper Books

When Faber described how the books went out, he said, “No on waned them back. No one missed them. And then the government seeing how it advantageous was, to only have people reading about passionate lips and fists to the stomach, circled your situation with the fire eater” (Bradbury 85). The people did away with the books on their own and the government took control. Even the people who wanted books were not getting any good information because all of them revolved around nonsense. Many of the people had some kind of technology to read with rather than using a book or newspaper. When people start using electronic stuff it really throws out the need for books. To completely get rid of the books, it was very easy for the government since they saw that the people had lost interest in books. The technology did not only make people get rid of books, but also their social lives. Most people would much rather cuddle up with a kindle or something than an actual book. People also stopped spending time with their kids because it’s better to give them something to play on than listen to them whine. The kids could be learning valuable information with the stuff that their parents get them but instead they waste their time turning their brains to mush by watching dumb things like shopkins. No offense to the people that actually enjoy watching those

About a million tons of paper are used every day around the world and 93% of it comes from trees. Half of municipal waste is paper. About 20,000,000 trees are cut annually. (Mittal, 2009) Trees are very important to the environment, cutting them is affecting the environment negatively. In a year for this task alone, we print a total of 2,700 pages of paper. 8 trees of 8-inch diameter and 45 feet produce 1,000 to 2,000 pounds of paper. 500 sheets of paper weights 5 pounds, which is about 1,000 to 2,000 sheets per tree. By saving 2,700 sheets of paper a year we will be saving a tree. (Schildgen,

The author proves the falsehood of the long known assumption that plastic is a threat to our planet. By citing the research done by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, the author convinces his readers that not only are plastic bags not harmful as people think, but also beneficial. This surprises his audience and shows them how exaggerated the cries of environmentalists, which gets the readers wondering what else have they falsely believed in and what other information are paper-bags advocates hiding from them, and that pulls them into the argument and intrigues them further. Additionally, Summers lists the harmful consequences of using reusable bags by presenting research results and observations. This alarms the audience and raises concern in their

lives below the poverty line, and those numbers are likely to increase as the world economy continues to work through a painful de-leveraging of accrued debt… They [printed books] are inherently amenable to the frictionless dissemination of information. Durable and cheap to produce, to the point of disposability, their abundance, which we currently take for granted, has been a constant and invisible force for the creation of an informed citizenry.” If society continues to press eBooks and educational television rather than printed books, less fortunate children will have no source of information such as children books.

Books have impacted and used our most needed resource in the world which is trees. Books have caused deforestation which has taken away beautiful scenery views, oxygen, and protection for some homes. Obsolete books would help the world from this cause and save a lot of people and animals. Trees need

Paper recycling, on the other hand has been around for much longer. Pulp and paper plants in Canada have been using recycled material for more than 60 years (Bourdages, 1993, para. 4). One of the most obvious environmental benefits of using recycled paper materials, is that it will help to reduce the amount of trees being cut down for production of new paper. Overall, it is evident that there is an established recycling effort in Canada, featuring both positive and negative aspects.

Cutting back on paper use saves money and helps the environment. A weak point of his essay is that we don’t know who Connor Zielke is and it would help to know what perspective he is coming from. Connor Zielke

The benefit of recycling on the environment is endless even if you are just recycling paper products it can be beneficial. According to a website on recycling paper and other products recycling a single run of the Sunday “New York Times” would save seventy five thousand trees. The amount of wasted land that is left behind by those seventy thousand trees. could have been a strong environment that was destroyed just for a single run of the “New York Times”. According to the same source recycling plastic saves twice as much energy as burning it in an incinerator. This energy used to burn the plastic is payed by the American people’s tax dollar that money could be saved by you just by simpling recycling. In the same source it says that approximately one billion trees worth of paper are thrown away every year in the United States this paper thrown away is sent to these giant landfills and cost millions of dollars to dispose of as where if it was recycled we could save money by not having to pay for the paper sent to landfill and save money by not having to have it burned down or stored. The average American uses eighty five million tons of paper a year; about six hundred and eighty pounds per person according to the source earlier

We are advancing in the way we receive and read books. There are people that believe that printing and paper books will live on and be wanted and needed, and others believe the opposite. As we move ahead closer and closer to a complete digital society the need and popularity of paper printing and paper books has slowly died out, soon paper books will be a thing of the past.

I still remember the pause I had when I was about to pull the paper towel in the restroom of my college. That pause came with the recollection of the commitment I had made, not to use things whose productions lead to deforestation- conversion of forested regions to non-forest land for human use and industrial gain until I really need it. After a long look at the mirror, I smirked to myself and turned around settling my wet hands in my pants pocket so that they would dry till I reach my class. After a few days of attachment to the commitment, I realized that although it might be just a drop of water in an ocean but we can really minimize the consumption of products that lead to deforestation. For that, I have decided to recycle my books and also prioritize in purchasing recycled materials as much as possible. Carrying handkerchief instead of paper towels is another thing that I have decided to do. Alongside that, I have convinced my friends to reduce the use of products that come from forest resources which they are legitimately positive about . Deep thinking on well known yet ignored issue of deforestation and its consequences which needs to be controlled in order to maintain livable environment in this world convinced me to make some commitments in hopes of minimizing the excessive use of products that lead to deforestation.

This research question aims to think deeper on the circumstances of the overuse of plastic and paper, and what could happen more to the animals/birds, our environment, and our bodies if consumers keep on using plastic and paper products. This research question should be asked to raise awareness to users and most importantly designers, so they consider using other eco friendly material in designing their products.

While manufacturing papers we use wood pulp from trees, producing plastic requires the use of

The seller of digital textbooks will also be saving money over producing hard copies. 32% of the cost allocated to paper, printing and editorial can be completely eliminated along with 22.4% of costs related to bookstore operations and personnel. Bookstores as we know them could become obsolete or transformed into stores that sell tablets, e-readers and software packages on campus. Publishers or sellers will now be able to tap into a more global market with electronic textbooks as the information can be translated into many languages quickly.

Meanwhile, it also should popularize the green living ideas in public. Every year, a large amount of paper and disposable chopsticks are produced. “Since 2006, the annual consumption of chopsticks in Taiwan was around 4.8 billion pairs which equals to about 3 million of cut down bamboo plants (Shih, Y. F., Huang, C. C., & Chen, P. W,2010).” Thus, by limiting the use of disposable chopsticks and advocating using both side of papers in government and companies, it can effectively reduce the use per day and as a result, the demand of timber will go down, which can slow down desertification.

During the development of technology, most people have shifted to use electronic books to read both academic and non-academic texts. However, despite the technological changes, there has been a wide debate about the benefits of paper books over the e-books. It is important to understand that various reasons are suggesting why people should shift back to using the traditional books rather than the electronic ones. Even though some think that e-books are better that traditional ones, I believe that readers should return to traditional books because of various reasons.