Mack Roark – The Middlebury Blog Network http://sites.middlebury.edu/middblogs Selected Posts from the Midd Blogosphere Sat, 24 Jun 2017 14:37:34 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=4.8 In case you ever wondered what it costs to charge your iPad… http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/MiddLibraryInformationServices/~3/dd1QLBV45_8/ Fri, 22 Jun 2012 20:42:49 +0000 http://sites.middlebury.edu/lis/?p=29459 Continue reading ]]> Some have asked, “Is it really cost effective for me to be reading documents on an iPad with a back-lit screen instead of printing them out?”. Based on this article, it is worth literally every penny.

For $1.36 for a year, when charging an iPad every other day, you can read a lot of papers! That amount of money would print 27.2 single sided sheets at the current printing costs on campus. Food for thought, don’t you think?

The study was only done using iPads but it would be safe to assume that the savings are similar with other tablets.

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