Comments on: Are We Closing The Book On Bookstores? https://www.dimsumanddoughnuts.com/are-we-closing-the-book-on-bookstores/ A little SUMthing about growing up, making mistakes and happy endings. Tue, 22 Mar 2016 16:02:33 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9 By: Erika https://www.dimsumanddoughnuts.com/are-we-closing-the-book-on-bookstores/#comment-401 Fri, 24 Jun 2011 03:49:24 +0000 http://www.epkdesign.com/dimsumanddoughnuts.com/2011/05/17/are-we-closing-the-book-on-bookstores/#comment-401 Talk about a blog touching my heart. Books! Books! Books! Heaven help us.

]]> By: Robyn https://www.dimsumanddoughnuts.com/are-we-closing-the-book-on-bookstores/#comment-307 Fri, 20 May 2011 17:22:43 +0000 http://www.epkdesign.com/dimsumanddoughnuts.com/2011/05/17/are-we-closing-the-book-on-bookstores/#comment-307 I agree. The thought of no bookstores makes me terribly sad and YES–I loved Bookpeople!! Don't go, book stores!! I can see how the ease of a kindle could be attractive though. Shlepping a bunch of books around an airport is no fun, and hard on the back. I LOVE the idea of getting "Shop Around The Corner" at XMAS time. Seems like the perfect time for that movie. I'm totally getting it, but I'll have to order it since Blockbusters seem to be going in the same direction as book stores. 🙁

]]> By: ster https://www.dimsumanddoughnuts.com/are-we-closing-the-book-on-bookstores/#comment-305 Fri, 20 May 2011 06:14:30 +0000 http://www.epkdesign.com/dimsumanddoughnuts.com/2011/05/17/are-we-closing-the-book-on-bookstores/#comment-305 the thought of bookstores disappearing completely makes me totally want to cry. i think it would be AWFUL to have books gone. 🙁 wahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh

]]> By: Anonymous https://www.dimsumanddoughnuts.com/are-we-closing-the-book-on-bookstores/#comment-304 Thu, 19 May 2011 23:45:21 +0000 http://www.epkdesign.com/dimsumanddoughnuts.com/2011/05/17/are-we-closing-the-book-on-bookstores/#comment-304 I love real books – especially children's books but I have come to "like" my kindle. Case in point – stuck at JFK last night for over 6 hours waiting for my plane to Boston – ordered a "free book" bought a few cups of coffee and got comfy for the long haul. So easy.

]]> By: Anonymous https://www.dimsumanddoughnuts.com/are-we-closing-the-book-on-bookstores/#comment-303 Thu, 19 May 2011 20:47:53 +0000 http://www.epkdesign.com/dimsumanddoughnuts.com/2011/05/17/are-we-closing-the-book-on-bookstores/#comment-303 remember bookpeople?!….i hate kindles 🙁

]]> By: Hazel M. Wheeler https://www.dimsumanddoughnuts.com/are-we-closing-the-book-on-bookstores/#comment-298 Wed, 18 May 2011 20:34:30 +0000 http://www.epkdesign.com/dimsumanddoughnuts.com/2011/05/17/are-we-closing-the-book-on-bookstores/#comment-298 I love real books. Books I can hold in my hand. Books that we, my son and I or my preschool group, can gather round. Turn pages back and forth. Examine pictures for the hundredth time.

I can't imagine doing bedtime stories on an e-reader.

We are so fortunate in Portland to have little niche bookshops as well as Powells. Powell's Books still stands as those other giants fall. May it stand for a long time. But I also remember a very different Powell's in high school, where a crazy patchwork assemblage of shelves accomodated books, sorted by not much more than the alphabet and handlettered signs. We used to joke that with all the nooks and crannies, if a shelf of books fell over on you, it might be days before anyone even noticed.

What a great post, Robyn. Oh, and if you love a good movie, check out the original "Shop Around the Corner" with Jimmy Stewart and Margaret Sullavan. I watch it at Christmas every year, just because.

]]> By: Anonymous https://www.dimsumanddoughnuts.com/are-we-closing-the-book-on-bookstores/#comment-297 Wed, 18 May 2011 05:22:58 +0000 http://www.epkdesign.com/dimsumanddoughnuts.com/2011/05/17/are-we-closing-the-book-on-bookstores/#comment-297 We are such a technological world that everything seems to be 'going by the way-side'. Mom and Pop stores taken over by the 'mega-stores' – and now the mega-stores often see less business. I mean, in some areas you can order groceries off line!

You hit the analogy on the head — It's just like You've Got Mail….and the Fox Books Stores are downsizing — I hate that Borders and Waldenbooks are downsizing. I have to drive to Bay City to find a book-store and sometimes those are beginning to fade. Is it the end of an era…I agree with annelies — the Library is still a great place!

Jeri

]]> By: annelies https://www.dimsumanddoughnuts.com/are-we-closing-the-book-on-bookstores/#comment-296 Tue, 17 May 2011 20:57:47 +0000 http://www.epkdesign.com/dimsumanddoughnuts.com/2011/05/17/are-we-closing-the-book-on-bookstores/#comment-296 Two words: local library. Even if I don't take out a book in months (I love buying 2nd hand books on flea markets and am always behind on reading) I pay my membership religiously. It was my lifeline as a child, I want it to be there when DD is old enough but still has enough time to read 4 books per week. Like me.

]]> By: Fish https://www.dimsumanddoughnuts.com/are-we-closing-the-book-on-bookstores/#comment-295 Tue, 17 May 2011 20:17:43 +0000 http://www.epkdesign.com/dimsumanddoughnuts.com/2011/05/17/are-we-closing-the-book-on-bookstores/#comment-295 Remember record stores? Who didn't love an afternoon at Record Outlet followed by some quality time at Abbey Road?

]]> By: JMM https://www.dimsumanddoughnuts.com/are-we-closing-the-book-on-bookstores/#comment-293 Tue, 17 May 2011 13:40:38 +0000 http://www.epkdesign.com/dimsumanddoughnuts.com/2011/05/17/are-we-closing-the-book-on-bookstores/#comment-293 Books rule!

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