Re: Things we remember...
Robert A. Woodward
d...@gatekeeper.vic.com (David DeLaney) wrote:
> Carl Dershem <der...@cox.net> wrote:
> >Lawrence Watt-Evans <l...@sff.net> wrote in
> >> Matt Hughes <arch...@googlemail.com> wrote:
> >>>> djhe...@kithrup.com (Dorothy J Heydt) wrote:
> >>>>
> >>>> >But small stores where you know the people have gone the way of
> >>>> >all flesh too.
> >>>>
> >>>> No, they're still around, just less common.
> >>>
> >>>You find them in small towns. If you live there for a while.
> >>
> >> Even not-so-small towns.
> >
> >There are even some in big cities. The place where I buy all of my
> >books (except reference) is one of them.
>
> And, relevant to this, I've Just Been Informed earlier to-day that the last
> local Waldenbooks, which I've been patronizing since about 1991, is
> scheduled to close at the end of January. Truly, this sucks (and is more
> evidence for me that their parent corporation, Borders/Brentanos, jumped the
> shark several years back).
>
> This almost certainly means I'll be forced into switching over to the last
> remaining area Barnes & Noble, which is about as far away in the other
> direction... and therefore won't visit East Towne Mall (nee Knoxville Center,
> which new name it never has deserved) much at all any more.
I wonder if a Borders store is going into that mall (I know of two
malls where a Waldenbooks closed and a Borders opened up).
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Robert Woodward <robe...@drizzle.com>
<http://www.drizzle.com/~robertaw>
David DeLaney
> d...@gatekeeper.vic.com (David DeLaney) wrote:
>> And, relevant to this, I've Just Been Informed earlier to-day that the last
>> local Waldenbooks, which I've been patronizing since about 1991, is
>> scheduled to close at the end of January. Truly, this sucks (and is more
>> evidence for me that their parent corporation, Borders/Brentanos, jumped the
>> shark several years back).
>>
>> This almost certainly means I'll be forced into switching over to the last
>> remaining area Barnes & Noble, which is about as far away in the other
>> direction... and therefore won't visit East Towne Mall (nee Knoxville Center,
>> which new name it never has deserved) much at all any more.
>
>I wonder if a Borders store is going into that mall (I know of two
>malls where a Waldenbooks closed and a Borders opened up).
I do not think so; when I moved here there were three Waldenbooks, at least,
in the area, and at present there's only one. There is already a Borders ...
over on the West side of Knoxville, the affluent side nearer to Oak Ridge.
East Towne Mall is effectively out east in the sticks.
(And if one did, I think I'd still be switching. Borders isn't a bookstore;
it's a coffee shop and stationery boutique that also displays carefully
selected books for the discerning buyer of taste. Which isn't me.)
Dave
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erilar
d...@gatekeeper.vic.com (David DeLaney) wrote:
> Borders isn't a bookstore;
> it's a coffee shop and stationery boutique that also displays carefully
> selected books for the discerning buyer of taste. Which isn't me.)
They have books half-hidden in the back 8-)
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Erilar, biblioholic
bib-li-o-hol-ism [<Gr biblion] n. [BIBLIO + HOLISM] books, of books:
habitual longing to purchase, read, store, admire, and consume books in excess.