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jbcohen · 06-03-2011, 02:37 PM

I can recall quite clearly the "mall book" book stores and the tiny neighborhood book stores that existed many moons ago. Yes they were fun to hang out in ocassionaly but they all had one thing in common what ever you wanted they did not have it, what ever you did not want they had it. Customers were forced to buy what ever the store decided to stock or wait a long time for their choices to be delivered to the store. Yes, it was nice meeting old friends there ocassionally and yes it was nice walking into the book store. Unfortunately the business model of those stores never did suit me, I never found what I came for. Ocassionally would meet friends at the book store, however not enough times to make it worth my while to go down to the store. Yes the stores were good at the book recommendations however the electronic book stores are much better at this then any of the enighborhood stores ever were. Electronic stores are always there with what I want (something the neghborhood stores could never do), and introduced competition into the equation (something that the neighborhood stores to pains to eliminate), and electronic stores always seem to know what I want to read next. I always look at the recommendations for the book that I have just finnished and always seem to find the next book in the list, something neighborhood book stores tried to do but never seemed to be able to accomplish.

I love what 21st century can do for me and my family and I am very fustrated at what technology simply can not do for me as yet. I refuse to run about town gathering the things that my family needs each week, as my father did when I was young. Instead I preferr to allow the stores to come to me "they always have what you need" my pop recognized one day, and yes its true the electronic stores always have what my family needs.

I'm a book worm myself and you should see the library that I have in my basement that I accumulated before discovering electronic books. If you saw my library you would understand that I have gone electronic with the book out of necessity, the library is massing for a take over of the whole house.

06-03-2011, 02:37 PM	#8
jbcohen Wizard Posts: 3,032 Karma: 11196738 Join Date: Oct 2010 Location: Where am I? Device: Kindle Paperwhite Signature edition and a Samsung S24 Ultra	I can recall quite clearly the "mall book" book stores and the tiny neighborhood book stores that existed many moons ago. Yes they were fun to hang out in ocassionaly but they all had one thing in common what ever you wanted they did not have it, what ever you did not want they had it. Customers were forced to buy what ever the store decided to stock or wait a long time for their choices to be delivered to the store. Yes, it was nice meeting old friends there ocassionally and yes it was nice walking into the book store. Unfortunately the business model of those stores never did suit me, I never found what I came for. Ocassionally would meet friends at the book store, however not enough times to make it worth my while to go down to the store. Yes the stores were good at the book recommendations however the electronic book stores are much better at this then any of the enighborhood stores ever were. Electronic stores are always there with what I want (something the neghborhood stores could never do), and introduced competition into the equation (something that the neighborhood stores to pains to eliminate), and electronic stores always seem to know what I want to read next. I always look at the recommendations for the book that I have just finnished and always seem to find the next book in the list, something neighborhood book stores tried to do but never seemed to be able to accomplish. I love what 21st century can do for me and my family and I am very fustrated at what technology simply can not do for me as yet. I refuse to run about town gathering the things that my family needs each week, as my father did when I was young. Instead I preferr to allow the stores to come to me "they always have what you need" my pop recognized one day, and yes its true the electronic stores always have what my family needs. I'm a book worm myself and you should see the library that I have in my basement that I accumulated before discovering electronic books. If you saw my library you would understand that I have gone electronic with the book out of necessity, the library is massing for a take over of the whole house.