There’s been a lot of talk about whether new gadgets, such as the Kindle, will change the way we live. Our household has always been early adopters of the ‘latest’ technology: iPods, iPhones, digital SLRs, the Apple TV, etc. Mostly it’s just because we’re big geeks, but then we noticed something: we stopped buying as much stuff...
Even though we had previously been gung-ho about owning the physical copies, having this technology has allowed us to live with less. In particular we totally stopped buying DVDs and CDs, the only new ones being gifts (we actually don’t even own a CD or DVD player other than the computer).This also meant we were able to greatly reduce the amount of shelving and storage and downsize in general.
(By the way, we got the first-generation Kindle and didn’t like how it functioned, so we returned it. For now we’re sticking with old school books!)
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Kindles may be greener, but Amazon's ability to delete any book on Kindles at will is more than a little scary, in a Fahrenheit 451 kind of way.
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Certainly on the music front everything is digital now which sure saves a lot of shelf space. Video is getting there but right now, it is not as wide spread.
Paper is also something we have a lot less of these days. It still comes through the mail at the rate of a small rain forest a month but now anything important gets scanned, shredded and recycled.
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