The say that all digital devices, and hence eReaders, “require a constant flow of electrons” isn’t quite accurate. With the “E Ink” displays, they only need that flow of electrons when the image changes – after the refresh completes, it stays there until the next change is needed.

I don’t disagree with the fact that far too much pollution is created from all the electricity being used, but I did want to mention that not all of the eReaders are as bad as the rest of the digital devices (at least, not with regard to power consumption).

Another thing that irks me is that if software code were to be optimized, anything that used such software would be able to get much better performance-per-Watt. (Unfortunately, this would probably mean coding in Assembly Language, so it’s nowhere near likely to happen on a large scale.)