Going forward with the idea of the environmental impact of books, it’s interesting to see how both books and e books have an impact on the world. Books take up trees and some processing to print; however, e-books, while not taking up any trees, require more processing to be made and go obsolete much more quickly than books. The toxic materials in e-books are also much more harmful when dumped in a landfill than a book that is dumped in a landfill, because some of the metals actually taint and toxic the earth, and make it so that nothing can grow.