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My Borders is Closing.

Joshua_me

Joshua_me

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It's so fucking depressing. :mad:

First, my beloved Sarasota Main Street Bookstore goes under, (I know this means nothing to most, but it was a THREE story (ha !) wonder of a store, and old fashioned place where everyone knew your name. (Sort of like "Cheers" without the alcohol) It had been there since the 1940's.

And now, the mega-beast that was it's undoing goes under as well.

I love bookstores. It's hard to explain, they're just cozy and safe -feeling.

I knew most of the people that worked at this Borders. Many of the men were gay, (shocking) and I have been out with many of them socially.

Now, they will be out of a job. Now only Barnes and Noble remains and how long will it be before Amazon and all the rest put them under as well.

Sad how things change. Children being born today will probably never know what a bookstore was....
 
Me and books never hit it off but I share your loss.
 
Borders in York closed a year or so ago when Borders UK went bust. I miss the Starbucks on the top floor as much as anything. It was a haven from the tourists all queuing for Betty's over the road.
 
Holy cow man.. I share your pain about the closeing of book stores.

Here in my city we are lucky to have two fine independent book stores.. Ken Sanders owns one.. he has a huge collection of old books, antique books, much about Mormon history and stuff about the old West..
then we have Sam Wellers Zion Bookstore.. it's been around SLC, Ut since the 40's..

Those two stores are a treasue.. they are fillied with tons of volumes.. and the folks that serve you can point you to exactly where you want to go.. hell, the stores are old and have floors of old books... you acutally have to walk through many floors to seek what you are looking for.
I never cared much for Borders.. but I'm sorry to see they are leaving the business.

Hell, I just love to wander through a book store.. I love to hold a book, look at it.. touch it and thumb though it..
I may not always buy it, but I just love books.. not the Kindle deal, I hate reading books online..

I've been out of work for a couple of years now.. but when I was working.. well I'd spend about $900 a year on new books..
Hell I love to walk through a book store.. just spend time.. and it was fun to have an armload of books to take up to the counter..
I love books...
I"m sorry about your Borders man.. makes me sad to hear of any bookstore closing.. :grrr:

I guess we still have libraries.. but I actually like to own my books.. but I may have to 'borrow' them in the future.
 
Sorry to hear that. Kind of wish they didn't have to close down some of their stores (about 200 of 600). Four of their stores are closing in the twin metro area alone. Luckily, the two I goto aren't.

Children are still going to need books, so I don't believe all book stores are going to go any where quite soon. On top of that, if books were to disappear, I would miss that smell of a new book being cracked open for the first time. :(
 
I feel your ache. Blockbuster closed down a lot of stores across the country...now Borders. As Kindles, iPads and Nooks ownership is expanding, people will be downloading books and magazines to these devices instead of going to bookstores. It's the start of the new reality.

Just like I don't know anyone in my circle of friends buy music CDs anymore. All of us download them from iTune. Some of us are streaming movies as well (instead of renting or buying DVDs). It's the next trend.
 
tonyboy said:
I guess we still have libraries.. but I actually like to own my books.. but I may have to 'borrow' them in the future.
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As I hear, many libraries in the USA are also turning their eyes on digital borrowing schemes. So you might still need an E-reader. :P
 
Joshua_me, I remember all the hype and hoopla when the first Borders Books opened in downtown Seattle.

We all LOVED that place. I remember buying a lot of music there, they actually had listening stations and you could "test listen" to the merchandise. Also the food was great. It became a Sunday afternoon coffee and dessert thing-y for me and my gang.

Sadly in Portland, the world famous Powell's Books * is about to go into a third wave of layoffs.

Bookstores, like newspapers, are dinosaurs...

* http://www.powells.com/
 
As well as Borders, a long established Aussie chain of bookstores has just gone into receivership and will no doubt eventually close its doors, too .... Angus & Robertson.

I just can't imagine a main street in Oz without an A & R bookstore! :cry:
 
When Blockbuster moved in it spelled the end of dozens of "mom and pop" video outlets across the country. Some Blockbuster stores opened directly next to or across the street from the older stores purposly to drive them out of business.

The same thing happened again to scores of independent bookstores when the chains opened their bookstores across Canada. After bankrupting the independents they turned on each other. Now there's no one left to feed on.

These Walmarts of books are reaping what they sowed, and I shed no tears for them.
 
The only stores I see closing around here are the video stores like Blockbuster and American Video. A lot of the bookstores tend to do well. Move up here :D
 
I'm on the fence...

While I love books, Border's usually never has what I'm looking for. Sure, they offer to order it for me - but I can do THAT on my own... and if *I* do it, I can generally find it for about 1/4 the price they're ask for it.

I had this happen just the other day for a book I needed as a reference at work... $60 vs $6 ... which would you choose?
 
That sucks.

I love bookstores also, and hate to see them go away. You're right, it's a different shopping experience. It's easy to get yourself lost in a bookstore, spending hours browsing.

In the past year, my town lost Barnes & Noble, B Dalton and Waldenbooks. We have no bookstores anymore. The closest Barnes & Noble is now 75 miles away.

One of the things I like to do when I'm traveling is to visit bookstores, and they're disappearing. 4 out of the 8 Borders in the Minneapolis-St Paul metro area are closing. 16 Borders in Chicago are closing. The huge Borders on University Avenue in Madison is closing. :cry: I've spent many hours in there.

How is Chapters in Canada doing? Last time in Winnipeg and Toronto I shopped there. Loved the Worlds Biggest Bookstore in Toronto.

Guess it's a sign of the times.
 
When people suggested that the U.S. should close its borders, I don't think this is what they meant.
 
Keelandson said:
This, this, and this. . . .

So Chapters, which I heartily dislike, appears to be the winner. So far.
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Thanks so much for those links. The Winnipeg Chapters store I visited was the one near Polo Park. (bought Joni Mitchell's biography)

McNally Robinson closed it's Polo Park store?! However, I didn't like going into Polo Park except for shopping at The Bay. Polo Park on a Saturday is too busy for me and haven't been in there for a few years. At least the Grant Park store remained open.
 
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