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I feel exactly the same. In a particularly surreal moment a few months ago, I was in a newly-constructed Indigo store here in Kitchener, next door to a cinema m
by mikepurvis 8y ago
I feel exactly the same. In a particularly surreal moment a few months ago, I was in a newly-constructed Indigo store here in Kitchener, next door to a cinema multiplex, and there were so few books in the central gathering space of the store that they had a seating area set up in front of a giant flat wall that had a decal on it designed to look like bookshelves.
Where have we come to when even a bookstore uses a picture of books for decor in place of actual books?
- Waterluvian 8y agoI bought a Kindle earlier in the year and have read 11 books so far with it. This is a faster reading pace than I've had in at least a decade. I doubt I'll visit the new Indigo. Chapters on Weber had indeed slowly turned into a Pier 1 Imports avec books. This has nothing to do with the health of literature. It's about brick and mortar stores being overextended in the 21st century when we've got all kinds of alternative ways to buy and consume merchandise including books. I remember my childhood when there wasn't Indigo or Chapters big box stores in KW. There was a Coles inside Fairview and Conestoga malls taking up the space of a typical mall store. It's just the rise and fall of big box book stores.