Reply #74: Easy - Bleached hemp paper books. I'm not sure e-books are ecologically

[John Q. Citizen]

superior to printed books. Most of the worlds electricity is produced by burning hydro carbon based fuels to turn electrical turbines.

And the need to produce, and distribute a brand new product to make use of e-books sounds like a consumerist's dream.

I can see the there are also potential postives with e-books as well, from determining the font and font size to instant worldwide distribution, at least to those among the 6 billion of us who are lucky enough to own such a device and have access to a connected e-reader machine.

I see Christmas as a kind of modern potlatch ritual, similar in some ways to those practiced among some of the Northwestern Coastal tribes in the US. The social scientists who have applied the data to marketing have certainly helped shape it's modern practices here in corporate media saturated America.