...'tis the season...read a book.
I don’t know about you, but there’s something missing this holiday season. Maybe it’s just me, but it just isn’t Christmas without hours spent wandering Borders, knowing that somewhere there has to be something that someone (whoever they may be) would want.
With so many choices, it always seemed impossible, or at least improbable that you could leave Borders without exactly what you were looking for, even if it took you an hour of wandering the shelves to figure out what exactly that was.
It was the go to gift destination. When all else failed you could go to Borders for a books, music, movies, or stationary; or possibly random trinkets for your books, music, movies, and/or stationary…and I can’t imagine anyone not wanting any of those things. In fact, I shudder at the thought.
But while their absence this season is especially noted, their demise has given the remaining merchants of the printed word hope for the future.
Book sales are up this holiday season! We’ve done it page-turners. We’ve found our salvation outside of the library–gift giving.
Those digital books may be convenient, and less expensive, but bound books have one thing they’ll never have–they look good gift-wrapped.
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“E-Books, Shmee-Books: Readers Return to the Stores”: New York Times
…bi-daily smile…
