Borders is going out of business...forever

glennmagusharvey

This really bugs me.

I much preferred their membership program.  You didn't have to pay a monthly fee to get it.  Well, you could and you got more benefits.  But you could just buy books and accumulate points toward discounts or something, and pay no fees.

I always felt that Borders was the underdog to Barnes & Noble.

Central Avenue

I have fond memories of being 7 or 8 and living in an apartment complex right across the road from a Borders. On boring summer days, my mother used to walk me over there to pick out new books.

It is kinda sad to see it go, even though I haven't been in a Borders in years. (There never were any on this side of town)

DarkDecapodian

And now I can't help but wonder if Borders is just the first domino in the line. I know a chain store like Borders probably put it's fair share of smaller book dealers out of business, but it still fucking sucks. 

glennmagusharvey

Borders has a very significant e-book business alongside its meatspace stores.

Vivi

I'll miss it too. They just couldn't compete with all them new fangled nooks and kindles.

ninjaclown

They have e-books, so they'll be okay right?

Vivi

Well, apparently not, since they are closing all stores.

Vorpy

WHAT?

THEY ARE THE ONES I BUY ALL MY MANGA FROM....

Um, this sucks, very much. I must buy them out before the one in Kali closes....:(

Oh Borders....you were the only ones who carried books that were above the T - YA+ in the Manga department.

FrodoGoofballCoTV

Borders was my whole family's favorite bookstore. At least Hastings still exists.

Vorpy

http://bordersclosing.com/


Hastings also sells awesome others like games and merch, so hopefully that'll keep it up....poor Borders...

ninjaclown

On the other hand, don't miss out the opportunity to cash in on their misfortune on buying what you've always wanted now, since they'll obviously be having clearance sales.

Vorpy

I MUST INCREASE MY BUST

MY COLLECTION OF DVDs and Books I might not read ever again before everyone else does

Legionnaire

I'd miss them more if they weren't so ridiculously expensive where I lived.

Vivi

That's what I said after prostitution became illegal, Legion...

Hatter

Am I the only one who heard a dramatic chord after the title?

Central Avenue

^ I didn't, but I did think of this:

Legionnaire

^^^Dammit, how am I meant to get laid now?

Waltzy

I loved Borders so much. There was one at our mall here and I had so many nice memories. I'd go there with my senior buddies when I was just a freshman and we'd get hot chocolate and snuggle up in their big armchairs during the cold winter months and help each other with fanfiction. We'd take turns writing passages and passing our stuff back and forth, occasionally stopping to pick up a book and flip through it.

I remember going there to do all my Christmas shopping because I didn't really know what else to get people. I remember going with a great guy three days before Christmas and I hadn't been able to talk to him before because I was so shy, but we became great friends the day we went to Borders and he'd open up all the pornography right in my face to make me blush, then laugh and tell me I was cute. I remember waiting in that huge line that wasn't so huge because it was a bookstore and even though it was the holiday rush it didn't matter because you had a book to read to make it pass quicker.

It started snowing when we stepped outside to meet our friend who'd been late that day, and she was embarrassed because since we kept missing each other, she felt awkward since she'd dressed up in her lolita stuff she'd just bought from Japan and she'd been alone all day. They hugged, I watched awkwardly in the cold, and like an old friend, the light from Borders' windows was like melty butter in the dark as I looked inside again to occupy myself. The accumulating snow made me sneeze and the guy friend pinched my nose each time and called me Rudolph.

We went back inside to escape the cold and get the girl friend some yaoi manga for her terrible day.

A year later, I went Christmas shopping there again, and picked up my very own first yuri manga as a little something special for myself. I did it again last December, and then a month later I heard that they were closing. I went back with my friend and bought Winnie the Pooh, perhaps because I believed that if I bought something, Borders would somehow stay. A month later, their discounts deepened and in vain I bought a pair of reading glasses I didn't need. I just wanted to help. There wasn't even an upstairs anymore. It was reduced to magazines and travel sections before long. I didn't want to believe it, but it slipped away and they covered the sign with a crude tarp of a banner.

I have never stopped missing Borders. ;//////;

CommandoDude

Man to hell with them.

All their crap was overpriced.

IanExMachina

Borders UK branch went into administration in 2009.

I never really shopped there, I always used Waterstones, they were much nicer and the stores generally have a nicer atmosphere.

The_Edge

Yeah, the Borders around my area is closing and has a blow out sale... I need to swing by there this weekend. Thanks guys!

GLORIOUSLeader

Now "All of the Lights" will be dated.

glennmagusharvey

I should have picked up something at my local Borders store before it closed.

It closed in the first round of closings.  I can't really do much now.

Vorpy

@Waltzy



I wish I had a group of friends to read yaoi and buy manga and be embarassed at pornography with. I miss the days were I would go in and grab a Hig manga (which were like 11-12 d's) so they were never overpriced, and lines were never long. I remember the cashier told me "if you want to get anything else, be sure to get it this month", but never knew what that meant. And I can see that she probably knew this was going to happen.

glennmagusharvey

I wish I hung out with y'all in meatspace, so we could hang out together and stuff.

The_Edge

The wife and I went there last weekend. We spend about $90 because the 40% off was so awesome. We purchased a few presents and sex books.

Vorpy

If we had a teleporter....I would teleport to Borders with you guys and buy all the books you wanted to buy, even if I didn't need them, just so you would have to go elsewhere and get them for more.

The_Edge

Well if you want to buy some BDSM books before me, go ahead!