Yeah, I kept being excited about B&N big sales when I was in various ones in various towns where I'd previously lived...until I realized they were clearance sales because they were closing.
They still have lots of those big flagship stores in fancy malls, though, where they sell lots more toys than books, it seems. I dunno.
They were selling one of my childhood libraries' card catalogs at one point, and I badly wanted to buy them, but really, what was I going to do with them? It wasn't like they were selling the bookshelves. (Years later, when they remodeled the church library at our mission, I totally claimed one of the bookshelves. It's awesome. It takes up the whole wall of my guest room.)
B&N has been close to bankruptcy for years.
I was in a card shop the other day that had notecards featuring old card catalog cards with weird titles. They were awesome. I miss card catalogs too. And stamps!
B&N is pretty much the only bookstore in my town. (There are the 2 university bookstores - but that's not the same thing.)
Plus, my knitting group meets there weekly.
I hope B&N doesn't go down, when I replace my Nook I don't want to have to get a Kindle.
There are at least four bookstores in Pt. Townsend, which i find rather surprising.
I want old card catalog cabinets. I have no place to put them, but oh! I want them. I'd store all sorts of things in them: sewing notions, bottles of ink, bottles of perfume, scarves and jabots ...
Hi, my name is Jilli, and I have a problem with storage cabinets.
I also loved being able to see who had previously checked out a book and when (especially in school libraries where I probably knew the person...or was the person who'd checked it out before!)
But I will gladly trade that for the brave new world of having hundreds of books on my kindle. Makes travel so very much better. Never again the packing half my bag with books and still worrying I'll run out halfway through a flight...
But I will gladly trade that for the brave new world of having hundreds of books on my kindle. Makes travel so very much better. Never again the packing half my bag with books and still worrying I'll run out halfway through a flight...
Yeah, I love the Kindle app on my phone. And I, too, knew the worry of running out of reading material halfway through a trip.
I have an old card catalog, but you have to line the drawers, because the bottoms aren't solid once you remove the metal pipe that went through the cards. Still nice, though
Yeah, seriously, the advent of ebooks has literally halved my travel luggage. I didn't even take a backup paperback this last flight. Shock!
I think if I could see the records at freelibrary, I am about every fourth person who checks out all the Pratchett books. I am in the process of buying them, but I already owned them, so I am a little slow at doing it. But other than it being dumb to have to redownload instead of being able to just reauthorize, I don't see any harm in continually checking them out. I mean, other than that someone else can't be reading them while I have them checked out. But I'm a fast reader, and I hit the return button, so it's not long.
