Mounds Mall WaldenBooks on Borders hitlist

This industry is going to go the way of all flesh, IMO.  The Amazon-marketed 'Kindle' (Sony has a similar model out that requires computer interface to download books) is going to revolutionize the book retailing industry.  Now priced around $300 for an upgraded model that will allow the owner to download, wirelessly, thousands of books and read them in a 10 oz. electronic book with a 6" hi-def screen (print size can be changed with a slide button on the unit), hardbound and paperback books will eventually take a much smaller part of the market just as home phones have been eliminated by many homes in favor of cells.

I'd like to see Waldenbooks start marketing the Sony models (other techno manufacturers, LG, Samsung, etc., will jump on this bandwagon quickly enough) and be a one-stop shop for hardbound or electronic books like the Kindle.  Change with the times or die on the vine.  We don't need more dark glass in this town.  Plus, it would be a great marketing piece for the business 'rags' to use Anderson's Waldenbooks as an example of a cutting edge merchandizing.

Borders will find their coffee shops had better offer free coffee and Kindle recharge outlets if they want to survive, too.

Maybe I'm trundling toward dinosaurdom, but I'm not doing the Kindle thing.  Never will.  Give me books I don't need to plug in or change batteries for, ones I can makes notes in and flip through for discussions.

Speaking of dinosaurs, think of all the fossil fuel you wouldn't burn going back and forth to the book stores or library!  Download a book at a time from thousands of choices and even pour that second stiff scotch while reading a good mystery without fear of a DUI from Anderson's finest! 

Hear, hear, Bard! Double that for me! I've probably got more books than my beat-up old truck would haul, and I WANT MORE! The Missus doesn't like for me to get loose in Half-Price Books. If all these high tech people buy Kindles and other gizmos that marketing dep'ts. have convinced them they need, the real book pickin's ought to be pretty good for guys like us.   Welcome to geezerdom!

Dr. Oz did a bit on 'hoarders' yesterday, Geez, and interviewed a family where the old man was the hoarder and the long-suffering wife and gorgeous daughter just accepted it as a quirk?  Was that you????  He had an old pickup with a few thousand books laying around!!

Geezerdom? How old do I have to be before I need to get a Geezer Card? 

It might come as a surprise to folks, but I like to read non-fiction.  I study things.  I like to make notes.  I discuss.  Can't do that on Kindle, so far as I know.  

Which makes me think: wonder when Kindle will get into academia?  Would be nice for kids to carry fewer books in their backpacks - less need to see the chiropractor.  Maybe I should buy stock.......

NoBull:  The hoarding old man, long-suffering wife, and scads of books sure sounds like me, but there is no gorgeous young daughter in the picture. Not even a sexy French maid, dammit. Just as well it wasn't me, since I never got paid to be on TV, and I want to be reimbursed for showing my ignorance to the world!

Bard:  Again I'm with you. The vast majority of my books tend to be reference materials: history, especially the Civil War and the real West, motorcycles, birds and wildlife, and things I collect (or HOARD!). I know, Google is my friend, but I like flipping thru a book to find a bit of info I want to retrieve.

Get with the times Jethro!!!

  WHEN WORKING MOM WAS LITTLE I WOULD TAKE HER AND HER BROTHER TO THE STORE AND TELL THEM THEY COULD HAVE ANYTHING THEY WANTED AND THEY WOULD RUN TO THE BOOKS ALL THE TIME,THEY HAD TV'SAND ALL THE THINGS KIDS HAD BUT BACK TO THE BOOKS THEY GO.AND I LOVED IT.THEY ARE BOTH VERY SMART...I WOULD BUY A BOOK FOR A KID ANYTIME... LITTLE MAN LOVES HIS BOOKS ALSO...

Wonderful!  I love the used bookstores and I also love a new bookstore.   I love to read all types of magazines, I guess that gives me one more reason to go to Noblesville.  Why in the world would a decent coporation close the only real bookstore in any town?  We love to read at our house and the closing of Waldenbooks isn't a good thing.