Ebooks Vs Books Environment

So in conclusion if an e reader owner.
Ebooks vs books environment. The book s length and type can lead this figure to vary. 1 using an average of 7 5kg we can conclude it would take reading about 22 23 books on an e reader to reach a level in which the environmental impact is the same as if those books had been read in print. The carbon footprint when producing an ebook is of approximately of 168 kg of co2 while a traditional books just 7 5 kg average depends on the size of the book number of pages.
Presumably all the ebooks of freedom can be easily updated online much like a software update. Therefore in order to amortize the carbon footprint of the ebook we must read at least 22 or 23 books. Depending on who you believe and what is being compared that might be 20 100 paper books for equivalent.
A single e reader s total carbon footprint is approximately 168kg and for a book this figure is somewhere in the range of 7 5kg.