[nozzlegear]

What would a less idiotic timeline look like?

[tedunangst]

Reuse the cardboard box your laptop came in.

[cle]

Stick a book under your laptop.

[nozzlegear]

What's the carbon cost behind buying and shipping the book, or cutting down the tree to make the book?

[cle]

Use whatever's lying around. Some more ideas:

  - A shoebox
  - An old binder
  - A food container
  - Some coasters
  - Egg carton
  - Jenga blocks
  - Cereal box
  - Legos
  - Picture frame
  - Tennis ball (cut it in half)
  - Door stoppers
  - Cake pan
  - A screwdriver box
  - A few junk mailer magazines
  - Crumple up a couple newspaper pages

Or better yet, order one of these and make 3 more with the shipping box it came in. That'll help once it wears out, or you accidentally sit on it.

[toast0]

Not sure how many cereal boxes can hold a laptop... unless you're stacking them flattened, and then you need to eat a lot of cereal, but you can adjust height very precisely. :)

[redundantly]

A cereal box is likely thicker than the material used in the product this article talks about. It wouldn't take very many folds to prop up a notebook.

[redundantly]

They didn't say to buy a book just for this.

[recursive]

Assuming you don't have a book in your possession?

[0xffff2]

I'm old enough to have owned a lot of paper books at one point, but as a Kindle owner and person who moves every few years, I no longer own any physical books. For fiction and non-fiction prose, I find an e-reader to be strictly superior to the paper version. I've even embraced e-cookbooks. The UX is markedly inferior while cooking, but the convenience of not having to move boxes and boxes of paper around with me is worth it.

[dylan604]

this is actually more common place than you might expect. just like wearing tube socks vs ankle socks has become some sort of age delineation, owning books is as well.

[borski]

This makes me so sad.

[dylan604]

I have no books that have any value other than I already own them. After moving across the country a couple of times with them plus all of the other various moves, I have thought about getting rid of them numerous times. The only reason I have not is just sheer laziness on taking them some place. My most recent move left them in boxes and just stored.

[wiseowise]

What an amazing idea. Carry 2kg book of necessary size instead of foldable cardboard. Truly genius.