Borders is closing

[33girl]

Here's an idea.

Take the money you would have spent at Borders and donate it to your local library. This way they can purchase more books for everyone to read, not just you, and it's a lot more green than buying a book that once you finish reading it, you'll never pick it up again (until you go to sell it for a fraction of what you paid to a secondhand store).

Yeah maybe you don't get a book the second it comes out, but if it's good and worth the wait, who cares?

[MysticCat]

Originally Posted by 33girl

Here's an idea.

Take the money you would have spent at Borders and donate it to your local library. This way they can purchase more books for everyone to read, not just you, and it's a lot more green than buying a book that once you finish reading it, you'll never pick it up again (until you go to sell it for a fraction of what you paid to a secondhand store).

Yeah maybe you don't get a book the second it comes out, but if it's good and worth the wait, who cares?

I love the library and I support the library. But I love bookstores, too. Sometimes there are books I want from the library and sometimes there are books I want to own (and often do read again).

I guess I'll be more supportive of the locally-owned bookstore, because Barnes & Noble just doesn't do it for me.

[AGDee]

Originally Posted by MysticCat

I love the library and I support the library. But I love bookstores, too. Sometimes there are books I want from the library and sometimes there are books I want to own (and often do read again).

I guess I'll be more supportive of the locally-owned bookstore, because Barnes & Noble just doesn't do it for me.

Agreed. There are some books you have to own. I have a Nook and there are still books I need to own that are physical, not digital.

[sceniczip]

Originally Posted by 33girl

Here's an idea.

Take the money you would have spent at Borders and donate it to your local library. This way they can purchase more books for everyone to read, not just you, and it's a lot more green than buying a book that once you finish reading it, you'll never pick it up again (until you go to sell it for a fraction of what you paid to a secondhand store).

Yeah maybe you don't get a book the second it comes out, but if it's good and worth the wait, who cares?

I usually do reread the books that I buy and more often than not I save them for my classroom library! I fully support the library but I need to have my own classroom library as well.

[PrettyBoy]

The Borders near my house is closing, too.

[AZ-AlphaXi]

Was told today that the Borders that's in my closest mall is closing :-(