A digital gadget like a smartphone or Kindle, if you manage to use the same one for five years without replacing it, that has approximately the same climate cost as getting thirteen paper notebooks (or other books) per year.
If you only go three years that bumps it up to the equivalent of 21 books a year.
And for 16″ laptops those numbers are 50 books per year if you keep the same device for five years, and 83 for three years.
Conclusion for gadget lovers: every single extra year you use your devices is great. Do not upgrade.
Conclusion for paper book lovers: I thought paper was gonna come out way more ahead, like each smartphone being hundreds and hundreds of books, and while it’s not that far off (a laptop is close to three hundred books and smartphones are a li’l under eighty), books aren’t nothing so make sure to get used ones, and borrow and reread them again and again.
Also one beef burger is like five books and like one entire fifteenth of a smartphone so eat plants.
And one single seat on a there-and-back-again transatlantic flight is like three laptops (or 820 books). Per passenger. If there’s zero wear on the plane and the plane already existed. So stay down here.