So Borders Book Store is closed.
This is a sad time to be a book lover.
Yes there are the e-books and used bookstores and other "chain" stores...
But if this is a sign of the times, then us bibliovores are fucked.
Yes the copious amounts of cheap books that we've gotten are lovely. And I've picked up some stuff that I never was able to get full price (ZOMBIE STAR WARS!), or never would have looked at unless it was the last (or part of the last dozen) book in the store.
We went to both Walden (right when they opened) and the last Borders near us. 90% off or even 1.00 per book. The employees were oddly calm. And there was a frenzy of people looking at the 95% deserted shelves. Others hauling away bookshelves. The cafe looks like the aftermath of a riot.
We come home with our haul with no place to put them. They lie on boxes filled with other books. We spent money we didn't have. We spent time we didn't have. But we are happy with our books. Our manga. Our graphic novels. Our friends.
This is a sad time to be a book lover.
Yes there are the e-books and used bookstores and other "chain" stores...
But if this is a sign of the times, then us bibliovores are fucked.
Yes the copious amounts of cheap books that we've gotten are lovely. And I've picked up some stuff that I never was able to get full price (ZOMBIE STAR WARS!), or never would have looked at unless it was the last (or part of the last dozen) book in the store.
We went to both Walden (right when they opened) and the last Borders near us. 90% off or even 1.00 per book. The employees were oddly calm. And there was a frenzy of people looking at the 95% deserted shelves. Others hauling away bookshelves. The cafe looks like the aftermath of a riot.
We come home with our haul with no place to put them. They lie on boxes filled with other books. We spent money we didn't have. We spent time we didn't have. But we are happy with our books. Our manga. Our graphic novels. Our friends.
~H.S. Thompson
Thank you for the congrats......