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Originally Posted by BeccaPrice
I feel about bookstores the way some Republicans feel about the Republican party: I didn't leave them, they left me.
25 or so years ago, when my husband and I got married, our wedding gift to each other was a spree in the big Borders store in downtown Ann Arbor. As I recall, we each left with several hundred dollars in books - a lot of them non-fiction titles we saw from scanning the science or technology shelves.
There's a big 2-story B&N near me, I've only been in a couple of times. There's shelves and shelves of *stuff*, and lots of YA paranormals, but not a lot of books that might be interesting to me. The last time I was in the B&N, there were three tables of 50 Shades books, and tables of the latest best sellers, but nothing that looked particularly interesting to me. The political books were all the big-name conservative pundits - in Ann Arbor, of all places. I left with a thermal travel mug, and no books. I truly can't remember the last time I bought a book in a book store.
I have over 100 unread books on my kindle. The next book is only one good review and a couple of clicks away for me. I don't need to drive 25 miles to browse in a store, only to be disappointed yet again.
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Actually, more applicable to Democrats.