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post #16 of 26
7/21/11 at 7:42am
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Hired Amazon to make their website.

Talk about driving the final nail into your own coffin.
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post #17 of 26
7/21/11 at 8:09am
Well, they let Amazon run their website when Amazon was still unprofitable so I can see why they would've thought (short sightedly) that it was better to let someone else deal with the costs. Anyway I read somewhere Borders signed 15-20 year leases for their retail locations which is insane.
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post #18 of 26
7/21/11 at 4:29pm
Call me out dated, but when I read, I prefer the feeling of actually holding a book in my hands and actually flipping through the pages. I tried reading on my iPhone and a tablet but they are just not the same, especially with the back light. I also tried one of those e-ink readers where the display is fantastically close to looking like print, but the feel is still not quite there.
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post #19 of 26
7/21/11 at 6:07pm
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Originally Posted by blahman View Post

Call me out dated, but when I read, I prefer the feeling of actually holding a book in my hands and actually flipping through the pages. I tried reading on my iPhone and a tablet but they are just not the same, especially with the back light. I also tried one of those e-ink readers where the display is fantastically close to looking like print, but the feel is still not quite there.

For me, the advantages of using an e-reader strongly outweigh the advantages of a print-form book. I've had a Kindle for around 4 or 5 months and I absolutely love it. I've always read a good amount, but having the Kindle (and being able to download books for free) has just increased the amount I read.
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post #20 of 26
7/21/11 at 7:52pm
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For me, the advantages of using an e-reader strongly outweigh the advantages of a print-form book. I've had a Kindle for around 4 or 5 months and I absolutely love it. I've always read a good amount, but having the Kindle (and being able to download books for free) has just increased the amount I read.

+1

It's so thin and light i bring it almost everywhere. And under most circumstances, i far prefer actually reading off a kindle3 than a book. I especially like not having to deal with the issues the binding that arise from being 1/4 or 3/4 through a thick book.

I could never read off the ipad for long duractions, though it would be ok for magazines. I've always said mac users were a bunch of sans dessins.
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post #21 of 26
7/21/11 at 9:05pm
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Originally Posted by harvey_birdman View Post

Why are we not bailing this company out? Think of the children.

Oh, thanks to the education system in this country they can't read anymore.... thus no need for Borders. Jersey Shore on the other hand is so important that we should invite cast members to open the NYSE. Wait? They already did that? Kill me now.
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post #22 of 26
7/22/11 at 5:22am
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Originally Posted by Grenadier View Post


And because of cheapskates like you, we no longer have a Borders and the book-publishing industry is in peril.
They didn't adapt to the changing market fast enough. If they had, I would have made purchases. I did buy a muffin every now and then.
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post #23 of 26
7/22/11 at 9:27am
I read one book at a time and like showing off that I read the Financial Times/Wall Street Journal so there's no incentive for me to own an e-book reader (though I could see myself owning an ipad). I did buy my mother a kindle though.
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post #24 of 26
7/22/11 at 11:47am
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Call me out dated, but when I read, I prefer the feeling of actually holding a book in my hands and actually flipping through the pages. I tried reading on my iPhone and a tablet but they are just not the same, especially with the back light. I also tried one of those e-ink readers where the display is fantastically close to looking like print, but the feel is still not quite there.

Same. I borrowed a friend's Kindle for awhile to read a few books he had on there that I wanted to check out. It was good, but I like the feel of a physical book more. The smell, the look, flipping pages, it all contributes to the reading experience to me. But prior to going on my next multi-week long trip, I'll probably get a Kindle just due to the space it'll save.
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post #25 of 26
7/22/11 at 5:25pm
Regardless of whether you like e-readers or not, brick and mortar is doomed. I probably spent 2-3k on books last year. I spent $150 in a regular book store and the rest all on amazon. Even with shipping to canada (it's not free), it's just not worth the premium to buy from a store. This was all on regular books, not electronic. I occasionally go in to a bookstore to browse, and i do enjoy the experience, but 9 times out of 10 i know what i want so the ability to browse isn't something I really need.
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post #26 of 26
7/23/11 at 3:32am
I liked Borders okay, but then I'm still buying quite a few books, since a lot of what I read doesn't translate to my iPad (art books, automotive reference) and for my favorite authors I still like having hard copies. Where I lost out was the used books stores that Borders, B&N and eBay killed. Chicago's north side used to be crawling with used bookstores for me to browse, looking for the last few titles from my Modern Library or Heritage Classics collections.
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