Downward Spiral
I love printed books. Other than my own ebooks, I only have two or three other ebooks. Waldenbooks was great. I bought books there weekly. When Waldenbooks become Borders, I bought books there also, a lot of books. I always had a membership card. But gradually Borders seemed to become disinterested in their books. They seemed to be more interested in their CD's and games, and the coffee shop and other stuff. You could see it in the way they displayed their merchandise. In the last year of Borders on Maui, I went there often. They almost never had the book I wanted and it was always difficult to find. More and more, I found myself buying from Amazon. I was not surprised when they shut their doors, I had been expecting it.
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