A big step in my quest for a paperless office...

[hunter]

I finally got the printer-copy-fax-scanner machine in another room, away from my desk. The temptation to print or copy was always too great for me.

In it's place I've put a tiny 4X6 photo printer and a simple scanner.

Now I have to ask myself if it's really worth the bother print another crap piece of paper or to cause such a piece of paper to be printed on someone else's machine.

The answer is usually "NO."

I'm not even using the photo printer much because it's less expensive and less hassle to send a batch of photos out to Costco electronically and pick them up whenever I'm in the neighborhood.

I am of course a fossil to my kids who do most everything without paper, including writing term papers for school. Back in the days of dinosaurs I remember when writing a term paper required stacks of messy notes and copies collected in the library, a typewriter, a bottle of liquid paper, and lots of patience.

[Paper Roses]

1. White- out was my friend in school. The hardest part of college for me was

trying those #### term papers. My Smith-Corona was not equipped with spell-check. Neither was I.

Carbon Paper for your own copy? You betcha!

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4. You're a better speller because of it

There was a price to pay for errors - you had to pull out that little plastic bottle (and hope it hadn't completely dried out inside) :scared:

[LiberalFighter]

6. Didn't dry out until it got close to empty for me.

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7. Yeah I guess you have to remember to put the top back on

:D

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2. Don't forget the ink

The ink required to make a hard copy is more expensive than the paper.

For me it's either on my Mac or handwritten on note cards. I got into that habit when I found out Nabokov wrote his novels that way; now it's the only way I can remember anything.

[hunter]

5. My wife uses notecards and a clip.

It might work for me if I always carried a purse or something.

I suspect I'd be misplacing the cards every day but I haven't lost a desktop computer yet...

[RKP5637]

3. Yep, and sometimes retyping many pages in a term paper, because of a change in thoughts... I used

to go through enough typing paper to tree a forest, thinking back... I guess that's why I'm a democrat, because I have the flexibility to change my mind many times working for the best solution... I guess that's why I had to often retype my term papers for so many changes I had made. My goal too, be paperless.
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[NNadir]

8. It is, if one really thinks about it, very easy to eliminate a lot of paper.

In some ways the most difficult paper to eliminate is the paper with the most disturbing environmental profile: Toilet paper.

Toilet paper is a huge threat to boreal forests in Canada. It's one of those environmental issues that's under the radar, a little embarrassing to talk about, but very real.