Borders and Noble

[Joe Varo]

I know that people just love to trash-mouth the big, chain-booksellers,
but I'll tell ya' -- here in Erie, PA, before we got a B&N a few years
ago, all we had in the way of bookstores were one local outfit which sold
both new & used books, the only new ones being bestsellers and a not very
good used selection.  We also had (still have) a Waldens, had a B. Daltons
(which closed up a long time ago) and just before B&N opened we got a
Little Professor bookstore.

Just before we got our B&N I had the opportunity to visit the Borders in
Pittsburgh and I thought I'd died and gone to heaven!  Books upon books
upon books...philosophy, foreign language, you name it, they had it.

The local B&N is almost as good as the Pgh Borders, but not quite.

So I don't care what y'all say...when you live in a town with shitty
bookstores, B&N is an absolute godsend.

Joe