That is the question. It still amazes me that neither of my daughters has a working printer in her home, even though they are working from home.
Just this week, I received another email with a note at the bottom that said “please don’t print this if you don’t have to.”
I use a lot of paper and ink, but I’m trying to cut back. I’ve cut my paper usage almost in half since my wife pointed out to me that most documents that aren’t leaving the house can be printed on two sides. All of our scratch paper is now the backs of envelopes which once contained junk mail. Hence my message to the direct mail industry: “stop writing things on your envelopes!”
I prefer reading longer documents on paper, so when I receive them by email I used to print them out and then read them while sitting in my favorite chair in our library. But even though I vowed I would never read anything longer than 100 words on a telephone, I have become used to reading documents on my iPhone. So now when I get a document in my email (how quaint; yes, I still receive and read email), I stick it in a folder called “to read later.” I have thus cut my paper consumption even further. But it is still true that you will have to pry my printer from my cold dead fingers.
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