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BORDERS BANKRUPTCY: AN APPRECIATION
Apr. 15th, 2011 12:12 amEveryone has a vice. That one thing they just can’t say no to and will go out of their way to satisfy if given half a chance. Cigars. Booze. Blow. Blowjobs.
For me, it’s bookstore clearance sales.
I’ve been in Singapore the past few days. They have a Borders there. And Borders, you may have heard, is going through a rocky patch. And so, by the wildest of coincidences, on my last day in town, Borders rented space in the *Scape Warehouse and bought truckloads of books, with the highest price at 5 Singapore dollars (which works out to 4 US dollars).
And I just happened to have a few hours to kill before I had to head to the airport.
WINNING!
( Factual statements inside )
DISCLAIMER: While I’m kind of sad that the Singapore Borders is closing, I won’t really miss it. Apart from the selection becoming less and less relevant to my needs (compared to the Kinokuniya a few blocks down Orchard Road), that particular store had a bad habit of not policing the racks to reshelve books in the right order, or even the right genre, after customers had moved them, which just made it hard to find things.
Don’t get me wrong – it’s gratifying to see Ann Coulter’s books in the science-fiction/horror section. But still, you know, I have standards.
TOTAL book nerd,
This is dF
For me, it’s bookstore clearance sales.
I’ve been in Singapore the past few days. They have a Borders there. And Borders, you may have heard, is going through a rocky patch. And so, by the wildest of coincidences, on my last day in town, Borders rented space in the *Scape Warehouse and bought truckloads of books, with the highest price at 5 Singapore dollars (which works out to 4 US dollars).
And I just happened to have a few hours to kill before I had to head to the airport.
WINNING!
( Factual statements inside )
DISCLAIMER: While I’m kind of sad that the Singapore Borders is closing, I won’t really miss it. Apart from the selection becoming less and less relevant to my needs (compared to the Kinokuniya a few blocks down Orchard Road), that particular store had a bad habit of not policing the racks to reshelve books in the right order, or even the right genre, after customers had moved them, which just made it hard to find things.
Don’t get me wrong – it’s gratifying to see Ann Coulter’s books in the science-fiction/horror section. But still, you know, I have standards.
TOTAL book nerd,
This is dF
