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Originally Posted by Laine
In Sydney Angus & Robertson and Borders are about 3 doors away from each other so I guess that means they close it. Funnily enough Dymocks in the city is better than A&R for everything I buy. A&R is the pits but they are renovating or moving - I forget what they said. Maybe they'll keep the Borders and have different sections?
In the local shpping centre A&R loses out to Dymocks too.
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I think the description of "renovating or moving" describes perfectly the impression A&R give in most of their stores. The Pitt Street Mall store was once my favourite, but I began to find myself passing it by. I used to love starting in Borders, going to A&R (or starting there, pre-Borders), as you say a couple of stores up, (though I went there less and less), then walking through the Mid City Centre to Dymocks, George Street (which, I admit, despite my raging against them, was a good store for bookrange if not for service), then on the way home do a little detour to Galaxy before stopping in Kinokuniya (a marvelous, wonderful book store! Have you been there?). It was book-browsing nirvana.
Where I live now, the best browsing I get is from the internet or visits to Westfield when I visit my brother, neither of which is the same.
Here's hoping A&R are "recreating" themselves by using the Borders stores as a jump back in and jump off point. I found most of the Borders I've visited in Australia to be quite excellent for book-browsing. It would be nice if A&R were "born again" in that image, rather than the "renovating or moving" image they seem to display these days.
Cheers,
Marc