I used to be an avid Borders customer; I could physically go to the store and check out their computer section and through serendipity I would find things I lik

I used to be an avid Borders customer; I could physically go to the store and check out their computer section and through serendipity I would find things I liked and buy them. They were enormously overpriced, like most computing related books outside the U.S. ($100 NZD +), but I would wear that because I liked the experience. This was in about 2003. By 2008, the section which held the long tail I liked had shrunk to maybe 2 shelves. They no longer kept the kinds of books I liked in inventory, just "Photoshop for dummies" or perhaps the odd "Learning Python". At the point where everything I might want had to be ordered in and would take longer to arrive than from Amazon, I stopped bothering to go :/