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Hey hey hey!! It's Shirley Haley Temple!!!!

Not getting into the debate....sorry.....

Ebooks and borrowing from friends, neighboors and library....

Screw the little guys. Let's crush the little bastards with the giant heels of a steel boot. Damn, I hate the gnat like little fuckers nipping at my heels all the time.

They're doubtless right about the packaging inefficiencies, but they don't take into account the fact that one postal (or UPS) truck can distribute books to hundreds of households more efficiently than if all those people drive down to the bookstore. I don't have enough info to do the math, but I'd say this video oversimplifies the issue.

If you really want efficiency, get a Kindle.

The waste comes mostly from three times as many trucks delivering the extra volume of boxes hundreds of miles from the warehouse to your town, not so much from the truck that delivers the book to your door. Do this math, and the carbon footprints are clearly very different.

As for the Swindle...er Kindle...we'll have some things to say about that in the future.

Except those last like, 800 years in a landfill, and are filled with toxins that seep out into the environment.

Plus, you can't share the books, and they can remove books from your collection at any time.

Also, all the layout and graphic designers, book designers that lose money and jobs due to things going digital.

Are you seriously ignorant enough to have missed the message of that video? Or is it your selfish American way of "I want it cheap and I want it now" getting in the way of caring about other people in your community besides yourself? Just because "the big guys" support your job, doesn't mean you have to support them on that level. They don't and will care about you the way an independent bookseller would.

hey, i can afford to...so if my ignorance offends you.....good!! even with the recession, i'm on top!!! LOL you freakin dumba&^%$!!!!!!

Can I not comment here after receiving thumbs down?

But what if you use the money you save price-shopping on the Internet to donate to worthy environmental causes?