BOOK STORES ON DEATH ROW

Subject: BOOK STORES ON DEATH ROW Wed Mar 30, 2011 6:33 am

3/30/2011

Here's an interesting article on book stores..

http://www.cnn.com/2011/OPINION/03/30/pearlman.book.store.closing/index.html

Cheers..Joe

Subject: Re: BOOK STORES ON DEATH ROW Wed Mar 30, 2011 8:02 am

Borders in Redmond, WA is gone and the corner looked quite lonesome.

Subject: Re: BOOK STORES ON DEATH ROW Wed Mar 30, 2011 1:44 pm

Joe,
The most agreeable bit in in the article was this:

"At the risk of sounding like my great aunt, I love books. I love holding books. I love thumbing through books. I love marking up pages, I love perusing bookshelves, I love feeling the paper between my fingers."

I agree Smile

Subject: Re: BOOK STORES ON DEATH ROW Wed Mar 30, 2011 2:05 pm

And it isn't just about books. It's about businesses in general; it's about relationships; it's about society, culture, and ordinary daily living. Everything is shifting and changing around us. It is hard to find anything anymore that is comfortable and that we can hold on to as being real and permanent.

Changing paradigms.

Ann

Subject: Re: BOOK STORES ON DEATH ROW Wed Mar 30, 2011 2:16 pm

Tell me about it Ann. Too much change!

I've started stocking up on second hand paperbacks before they disappear completely and make way for this new "e" generation of nooks and kindles.
Finding the space to store them is another matter entirely...

Subject: Re: BOOK STORES ON DEATH ROW Wed Mar 30, 2011 2:48 pm

3/30/2011

Ahad..

I agree with you 1000% , I hope books are here
to stay, I like holding books, I guess I should get over
to Borders this weekend....

Cheers.Joe

Subject: Re: BOOK STORES ON DEATH ROW Wed Mar 30, 2011 2:53 pm

joefrank wrote:: 3/30/2011

Ahad..

I agree with you 1000% , I hope books are here
to stay, I like holding books, I guess I should get over
to Borders this weekend....

Cheers.Joe

Hope yours is still there!

If all else fails, you can order from Amazon.

Subject: Re: BOOK STORES ON DEATH ROW Wed Mar 30, 2011 6:40 pm

Interior decorators still use them for design. I used to buy beautiful hard cover books from the dollar store to decorate the condo's that I rented or sold....

In fact, I have some "decorator" hard cover books decorating a couple tables now...

Design people suggest picking up the "right style" books at antique shops. I say, hang onto the ones you love and decorate with them.

The children born today will not have the attachments that we have. They will consider our desire to touch the pages silly nostalgia without substance.

Subject: Re: BOOK STORES ON DEATH ROW Wed Mar 30, 2011 6:53 pm

DK,

You are so funny and so right.

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