ebooks

Posted by admin on May 22, 2009

ebooks—electronic version of a book–are eco friendly.
Now you can pretty much get alot of new books as an ebook.
Some have the printed versions available as well for those who prefer having a book in hand rather than reading on the computer.
I love both.

Now, some may argue that while ebooks save trees, ink, and have a lower carbon footprint than a printed book they ‘make’ people use power to read them since they’re on their computer. There isn’t any data yet (at least I haven’t found any) where they’ve calculated the environmental friendliness of ebooks vs printed books.

Additionally, you’d have to consider some people will and do read books at the library or are involved with book swaps which would cut down part of the printed books “faults” and there’s research that shows that only about 10% of the ebooks that are downloaded are actually read…so, you have to take all that into consideration. However, for the purpose of this blog I’m going to just say that ebooks alleviate the waste involved with printing on virgin paper, toxic dyes/inks, and all the factors of packaging and shipping a printed book that aren’t incurred with ebooks and leave it at that!

In fact I just got a free version of High Raw by Kevin Gianni but I did also order the print version too. I loved the book and the fact I could immediately read it (it was AWESOME by the way), but I also wanted the print version to use for reference with others, etc. (see I’m not “perfectly green”)

Kevin Gianni and Mike Adams also started HealthBookSummaries.com where you can get easy to read summaries on a slew of different books (fitness, food, health, etc.).

You can read a variety of ebooks from EcoBrain.com as well.

Naturally I’m focusing on eco friendly, raw, vegan and natural health ebooks here
But there are many others available for just about any and all subjects you may be interested in.