Another Thing Our Children Will Never Know

This is my favorite freaking bookstore, when I'm not secondhanding it up at Mckays. Well, maybe I can get some good books out the sales.

2nd + Charles (used books mostly) is the only place we book shop anymore.
They also have vinyl records (some reissues of jazz too) and CD of course.

I love a good old-fashioned book. The feel of the paper, the weight in my hands, even the dust on a favorite that I've had on the shelf for years and just rediscovered. But darned if my Kindle isn't changing my mind on a lot of things in a real hurry.

I got the email about that this morning and was heartbroken. I loved the fact that you didn't have to buy a stupid card to get a discount. All we have in my town is Crooks-a-million and they charge $20 a year to get a 10% discount.

Meh!!

As a former employee of Borders, I'm surprised they lasted this long. The company was run by some of the dumbest people I've ever had the displeasure of working with.

I really liked Borders; I was kinda sorry to see all of the ones in my vicinity close recently.


But, then, Amazon.com is very attractive because California sales tax is obscene.

Buy used on amazon!

Got the email this morning our own selves. Kinda sad but Borders was never my favorite bookstore.

Like others, I recently downloaded the kindle app to my phone and figured out what an anti-boredom advantage it is to have your latest book with you everywhere you have your phone.

powells.com

That is all.

Give me a good, old fashioned book. It works when the power goes off and doesn't need a recharge.

Borders was a great place to go, but the nearest one to us was 35 miles away. In fact, the nearest bookstore to where I live is still 35 miles away because it's a Barnes & Noble and it's across the street from that same Borders.

Suck it.

SUCK IT!!!

I've not bought many physical books since I had my eReader on my phone. Now that I've got a Kindle that process is accelerating. The only books I've bought are some books that just aren't on the Kindle yet.

I've had the Kindle since December and I've got 62 books on it. (Plus another 70 ebooks on my phone with what was the original 'Palm Reader')

At this point the only reason I go into Barnes & Noble (Borders is to far away) is to buy magazines or kids books.

There are rumors swirling about the next couple years a Kindle being in color and having a refresh rate fast enough to support video. If I can find the company again I will post it here but the results were amazing.

Physical books are on the obsolete train. If you have a physical book you will have it printed up for you as a special order. Only certain books that wouldn't look nice on eReaders will get printed.

In a few years as the technology gets up there and the price goes down at the same time you will see schools and colleges start making massive pushes to get away from books and go to ereader devices. You'll be able to read the textbooks, make notes, do assignments all on the device which will then be able to send to the instructor your work.

I've been to this McKay's. It was glorious.

Hmm, I gotta check to see if the one near me is dying...I could get some good deals..*licks lips, rubs hands*

I like a good, old fashioned bookstore. I like to see a book before I buy it. Amazon is okay, but I'll miss Borders.

There's a lot of things our children will never know about.

And I think I've crossed that line into onery old bastard because I really can't keep up with technology anymore. I don't despise new technologies... hell, when I was a teenager I was one of the first kids to get a Vic 20 and Atari 2600 in my neighbourhood.

But I despise the fact that the entertainment business is moving from "ownership" to "leasing". If you have an iPhone, iPad, Kindle, Nook or whatever the fuck else they're hawking these days... you actually don't own any of the content. And that concerns me. If I pay 20 bucks for a book or DVD it's mine to read/watch when and how I want.

Maybe it's a generational thing. In the words of the muse... Whatever.

Here is the link for the company I was talking about. This is a eReader display you are looking at. It's not a tablet or iPad type device. This is what people are speculating that Amazon is working on for a new Kindle.

http://www.mirasoldisplays.com/demo

I'm fooling around with the Kindle for PC and have downloaded about a dozen Bible commentaries. It has its uses, but you still can't beat a real book. When the EMP hits after the North Koreans detonate their nuke over the US, your PC and Kindle are gonna be fried. But your book will still be there.

All Borders stores are closing. However, you might not get any real bargains. These days when a retail store closes, the inventory is sold off to a third party who then runs the liquidation sale, often raising the prices because they figure there's enough saps out there who're too stupid to pay attention to what something should cost that they won't notice they're being gouged.

Working through three liquidation sales of stores I can tell you they don't raise prices. They don't have too.

The liquidation companies have bought the inventory for pennies on the dollar. They are making money hand over fist without having to raise prices. This is why they start out at 10%-15% and work their way down.

And you'll have your book with you when they burn your body in a mass fire pit after you've died from starvation, lack of medical support, disease, winter or plain old fashioned criminal activity hyped up to super proportions because society breaks down and everyone starts eyeing what their neighbors have for food.

Course, by then, books will be people, ala Fahrenheit 451.

No loss. Unless you were planning to teach them yourself, we're pretty much on a course to where your kids aren't going to know how to read anyway.

As long as Netflix is working they should be okay.

I doubt people will be taking the time to memorize the books.

Well, no, but once we get the cranial USBs, the lazymaking will even out the effort required

^ TOS Rep for Chuck when I get recharged.

Just got back from playing vulture at our local store. KJ picked up the Doctor Who movie and an episode for 20% off.