rictus58 Posted February 15, 2011 Share Posted February 15, 2011 I don't think I'll ever get into reading books on an e-reader. After staring at a computer for 9 hours at work, plus time spent on my phone, The last thing I want to do is read off of a screen. I'll read the daily news during the week on-line, but nothing beats actually holding a newspaper on a saturday morning, eating breakfast and drinking coffee. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mickalino Posted February 15, 2011 Share Posted February 15, 2011 Thank you. My boss now knows that I'm not working. If your boss is just now firguring that out, he's not very smart Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Burgold Posted February 15, 2011 Author Share Posted February 15, 2011 If your boss is just now firguring that out, he's not very smart Sure, now HH's boss not only knows that he's not working. Now, we're actively insulting him. :yikes: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LeesburgSkinFan Posted February 15, 2011 Share Posted February 15, 2011 The story of Borders Books ends at Chapter 11. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HOF44 Posted February 15, 2011 Share Posted February 15, 2011 I was looking at a Kindle versus an Ipad, I was worried about eye strain with the LED Ipad. I decided to go ahead with the Ipad for the net connectivety and to be honest as a reader I love it. It has such fine brightness/contrast/paper type controls that it has not bothered my eyes at all much to my surprise. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Teller Posted February 15, 2011 Share Posted February 15, 2011 Actually, you're actively insulting HER. Double whammy. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HOF44 Posted February 15, 2011 Share Posted February 15, 2011 Actually, you're actively insulting HER. Double whammy. What no pics???? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bang Posted February 15, 2011 Share Posted February 15, 2011 Definitely useless without pics, HH. ~Bang Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheGreatBuzz Posted February 15, 2011 Share Posted February 15, 2011 Am I the only one that thought this was going to be about immigration? I got my wife a Sony Ereader instead of the Kindle. It seemed a lot better then the Kindle and she loves it so...... I still prefer actual paper books. But she says I'm weird. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Burgold Posted February 15, 2011 Author Share Posted February 15, 2011 What no pics???? Seriously, get on the ball, HH. Grab your cell phone march into her office, hand her a negligee and start snapping away :sily: Edit: Yeah, I was definitely going for that play on words, GBuzz. I hope that Borders figures out a way to reorganize successfully after Ch 11. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
twa Posted February 15, 2011 Share Posted February 15, 2011 I still prefer books or actual papers,but the eyes are getting worse and I do like adjustable fonts and size print ect. The ease and access thru the net is a great plus as well...besides I have too many books already Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Burgold Posted February 18, 2011 Author Share Posted February 18, 2011 Well, they've already closed the coffee shop in my local Borders. The store, the one in White Flint, has eight weeks before they shut their doors permanently. So sad. Feel bad for the workers, the readers, the people who used it as a community gathering place, and me. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
China Posted February 24, 2011 Share Posted February 24, 2011 Scenes From A Borders Liquidation Sale Savvy shoppers know that there aren't any true deals to be found at the liquidation sales of closing retailers, but most people aren't savvy shoppers. Employees of doomed Borders stores are sharing their experiences online, and report that their stores are doing record business now that the liquidators have arrived and the garish "store closing" signs are up. Thanks to consumer confusion, business is good at the stores that aren't closing, either. Who knew bankruptcy was so good for business? Like most liquidation sales, Borders is starting at list price and moving slowly down. This means that prices are often higher than they were before liquidation. The deals we imagine just don't exist. Author Michele Lee works at a Borders store, and is blogging her experiences during the liquidation. She eloquently explained what she thinks is going on in customers' brains: Twenty percent is not a deep discount, as people are discovering at the register when their armful of books that they're sure will be a deal because we're going out of business still hit over $100. They seemed confused by this. This, more than ebooks, more than customer loyalties and more than downward trends in reading defines the current sales culture. We are trained to flip out over a series of trigger words to the point where without those words, without that perception of a deal (but not an actual deal) people don't spend. I can't believe that all the people there buying today would be doing so if they literally could not afford to. They have the money now, why didn't they have it a few months ago? Because we weren't having a liquidation sale then. There's no real time to be angry at the jackal behavior anymore. Instead I'm starting to feel sorry for people who need to buy things because it's on sale, or because they're surrounded with trigger words. There's nothing wrong with buying because you just want something, but we can't be honest about it, we have to justify it with "But it's on sale". ” Some employees are sharing their experiences anonymously on a (very unofficial) Livejournal community for Borders employees. Wow did today suck. Customers think ALL stores are closing. Are store is staying open and we had lines that were worse tham xmas. with 2 sellers , 2 reg people and a mgr this is a friggin nightmare. I'm sorry for all you in closing stores but if it helps you, the ones that are staying open are mobbed with confused customers who think everything is on sale and get mad at you when you tell them different. Another wrote: Very emotionally draining. The visual impact of the signage was jarring, even from the parking lot. Massive signs in lurid black, yellow, and orange. We were averaging 7,500- 8,000 an hour. Never seen crowds like that. Not Black Friday, not the Saturday before Christmas. Customers were mostly awful. Rude, demanding, stealing. I got there at 7:30am and feel so bad for the closing manager, because recovery is absolutely impossible. Customers were fighting over books, literally throwing them. Found books hidden in overstock, under fixtures, in the kids cubbies. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Burgold Posted April 13, 2011 Author Share Posted April 13, 2011 so the Borders in White Flint is closing in five days... so sad. Interesting to see what's left and what the vultures are circling. Of course, I'm a vulture too and bought six books today, but nontheless it's quite sad. Who'd have thought I'd out live eight tracks, video tape, film, and maybe even books? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheGoodBits Posted April 13, 2011 Share Posted April 13, 2011 Books will hang in there longer than other forms of dead technology. Borders just had a crappy business model, so it lost out. B&N is still doing ok, and not just because of their Nook. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Koolblue13 Posted April 13, 2011 Share Posted April 13, 2011 I think it's great that books are going to be a thing of the past. I know there is the sentimental value of them, but the forests and trees are much more important. I guess I'm sentimental about the woods, animals and clean air though. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Burgold Posted April 13, 2011 Author Share Posted April 13, 2011 I think it's great that books are going to be a thing of the past. I know there is the sentimental value of them, but the forests and trees are much more important. I guess I'm sentimental about the woods, animals and clean air though. Yeah, the environmentalist in me agrees, but I still will get nostalgic and sentimental about books. I enjoy the feel of them, the look of them, and even the way they age. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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