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"Reading" the internet then going to buy a book from Borders or Barnes and Noble is a comfy memory to me. I liked the split between 'online' and 'offline' bette
by butlike 6mo ago
"Reading" the internet then going to buy a book from Borders or Barnes and Noble is a comfy memory to me. I liked the split between 'online' and 'offline' better than this semi-integrated present we live in
- tptacek 6mo agoLots of people have pleasant memories of bookstores, and are unhappy that those stores haven't thrived since the Internet, but not needing to schlep down to a store to buy information printed on dead trees is an unalloyed good.
- kasey_junk 6mo agoYou aren’t invited over for dinner anymore…
- tptacek 6mo agoI like bookstores! I think I'm mostly thinking about technical books. Like having to go to the store to know how to write a socket program or to do multithreaded C++. Not good!
- kasey_junk 6mo agoI’m telling my wife you spit on her livelihood.
- tptacek 6mo agoI'm more scared of her than I am of you! I did nothing of the sort!