Nov. 29th, 2009

feather_ghyll: Book shop store front, text reading 'wear the old coat, buy the new book.' (Book not coat)
I saw in the newspaper on Friday that Borders was going into administartion, and so, on Saturday, I decided to go to the shop, feeling like a vulture. (It's become a tradition, sadly, after Woolworth's last year). I spent far more than I normally would at Borers (which is part of the problem), gifts, unreduced stationery and fantasy books I'd had my eye on before, knowing that even with a discount, they were probably still dearer than online (which is another part of the problem). I've always liked Borders. All the stores I've visited had had an airier feeling than Waterstone's. But then, I'd been given a book token on my birthday and I think I had to get them to order something, because there wasn't anything on the shelves that I wanted. It was very busy, dispiritng because there was a guilty buzz, even though I don't know how many real bargains people got.

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