Here's why I need to print. Most of my work is wri...

2007-11-05T10:27:00.000-06:00

Here's why I need to print. Most of my work is writing, which includes editing and proofreading. While on-screen editing is a boon, it's not enough. There is something that happens to the brain when it experiences information in different forms. Paper is a different "read" from digital. You can make notes, cross out, move text without losing track of where you are in the piece of writing, and so on. The same can be true with IT, and doing things like finding duplicate data.

Waste comes more from making copies of documents that no one will read. So far, the best conservation method I have been able to find is to get a source of all that printing overproduction and do my printing on the back sides of their waste documents.

I have to confess that I overproduce by printing stuff of the web for later use. Sometimes that's OK if I'm making folders for research, but a lot of times I print stuff I never refer to. I doubt that anyone 20 years younger than I really likes paper as much as I do.

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Here's why I need to print. Most of my work is wri...