Re: [dev] Suckless Smartphone?

On Tue, Jun 7, 2011 at 3:25 PM, Ethan Grammatikidis <eekee57_AT_fastmail.fm>wrote:

> On Tue, 7 Jun 2011 12:45:10 +0100
> Nick <suckless-dev_AT_njw.me.uk> wrote:
>
> > On Tue, Jun 07, 2011 at 12:39:53PM +0100, Guilherme Lino wrote:
> > > never tried it, but i would like to. And i really support the idea
> because
> > > there more trees falling in a day than growing in a year..
> >
> > I'm pretty sure if you make a case for ebook readers on
> > environmental grounds you will fail. They use a lot of
> > energy and resources (human and material) to produce.
>
> I wonder if it would stack up any differently if ebook readers were built
> to last (and their owners bought them with that in mind). I'm not sure.. I
> think even the cheapest books will outlast the best batteries... I dunno.
> All I know for sure is I have some very cheap paperbacks which are at least
> 20 years old, and my ~5 year old Zaurus is also fine, apart from the iffy
> charging cable. I've read loads of ebooks on that Zaurus, all plain-text,
> fmt(1) used to fit them to 63 columns, a fixed-pitch bitmap font called neon
> of all things, and at 230dpi it didn't even need anti-aliasing. Mostly I
> read them at night, but the screen was fine anywhere indoors.
>
>
What I'll never get about eBooks is that they can store ~3000 books and
surely more in the future.
3000 books / (1 book/week) = 57 years.
Most of us will already be dead by then... or the eReader itself will be...
Received on Tue Jun 07 2011 - 16:48:54 CEST