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b_b  ·  4711 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Share Your New Year's Resolutions
My NYR is to start frequenting the local record and book stores again. I've bought too much music online in the last few years, and I rarely buy books that aren't from Amazon. I kind of hate myself for succumbing to the convenience, because its so much more awesome to talk to the clerk at the independent store who's super excited about whatever new thing just came in. I miss those days.




kleinbl00  ·  4710 days ago  ·  link  ·  
Helps if you have decent bookstores around you. We've got decent used bookstores, but the new ones all suck.

As I got a kindle for christmas, I'm pretty much moving away from paper, so it's moot.

lessismore  ·  4709 days ago  ·  link  ·  
The e-ink Kindles are something awesome. I absolutely love mine (library lending + Project Gutenberg ). The only downside of owning one is that I no longer visit the local bookstores (not that there are so many of them around anymore) which I used to enjoy so very much. The last time I visited a brick and mortar bookstore was to sell my book collection.
b_b  ·  4710 days ago  ·  link  ·  
For sure. Its probably worse here in Det, because our population is so much less that LA. There is one really awesome specialty book store near my place that sells art book and graphic novels and the like, but besides that, there is basically B & N (which is sad, because Borders was a Michigan company many people here were proud of). The days of the large independent book store are certainly behind us, but even going into B & N and browsing has some appeal to me, just with the ambiance of being around so many books. I'll never give up entirely on Amazon, because so much of what I buy is stuff you could never find in any typical brick and mortar store.

My dad owns the last small edition commercial book bindery left in the entire midwest, so I've always had a special spot in my heart for books, partly because my family eating dinner depended on them growing up! (Here's some of his work. I'm biased, but I think its pretty awesome. http://bessenberg.com/products). I appreciate what the Kindle is and does, but I love books as a thing, not just as a conduit for information. Therefore, I hope they never get totally displaced.

mk  ·  4709 days ago  ·  link  ·  
Dude, you are near King's books! http://www.rarebooklink.com/cgi-bin/kingbooks/index.html They give Powells a run for their money.
b_b  ·  4709 days ago  ·  link  ·  
Yeah, but that's used. We were talkin' new.