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For all that you guys have projected onto Borders, it is and always will remain a corporation. A typical "big box." And they are playing the corporate game. So is Walgreens. Neither corporation is doing it for you. They are in this to make mula. Period. End of sentence. If you imagined that the Borders in Hilo was some kind of actual piazza, or community bonding experience... then I would advise you to get out more. Find a real community to bond with. Borders closed because it cannot compete in the capitalist marketplace in which it was designed to compete. It was outflanked by Amazon and others. Walgreens found an opportunity and exploited it. Good for them. Don't make this thing into something romantic. It was, is, and will be all about capitalism. If you want to read good books, all you need is the words, in the proper order. You don't need the smell, you don't need the leather binding, you don't need the coffee and you don't need the A/C. Give me Aristophanes written in the sand and I'd be just as happy. Or Plato scribbled on cocktail napkins. Borders is closing. So long! Boo hoo. Get logged onto Amazon and get over yourselves...
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Ouch
Ninole Resident
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LOL ... DaVinci. Barf Kathy.
I think all those people "coming together" ( edit to add >>> helped ) put them out of business ... Hang out, pretend to read while looking up every two seconds, ruin some 50.00 books and then bail.
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Hey Punagirl, sounds like a great business idea for your relocation. I would invest, actually Liza would love to be your partner..LOL.
We need to do dinner again/ATL-Puna Party, I'm no longer on FB..too many viruses...give Liza a shout.
Aloha, Tony
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mcdonalds has everything minus the books ;P
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Borders is closing because the rent was jacked up too high and Borders lost $33 million the first quarter of this year. It will be closing August 21
Donna
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KathyH: you misunderstood me if you thought I was in favor of small businesses over big boxes. My only point was that it matters not to me who can deliver the works of the writers I love, or in what form that delivery takes place. I'm thrilled that you already own Aristophanes and was not trying to tell you how you ought to read. I was merely commenting on the thread thus far presented, which to me sounded like a lot of folks wringing hands about the loss of something ultimately unimportant (a bookstore) when the books themselves were never lost. Let's all rejoice that the books are still with us, somehow, whether you are forced to read them online or off cocktail napkins, or whether your father happily bequeathed to you a lovely leather bound tome...
Kathy, I just like a more parsimonous approach as opposed to running on with personal anecdotal tangents ad infinitum.
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Books can get musty here. It depends on the home they're kept in and how they're stored... Cedar homes and/or bookcases are best.
JayJay
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Kathy, I think that is amazing that a book from 38' is still handling the climate well... Thanks for that info, I have some older books I wouldn't want to loose to climate damage.
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