Who stole Shakespeare and mathematics?

[fbhjr]

Yesterday my wife and I had planned on cleaning up the place, But, when we woke up we were both feeling run down.
“Feels like we have a hangover,” my wife said. And, that is pretty much what it felt like.
How I would have gotten one from game night while drinking diet soda isn’t clear to me.

Anyhow, because of that we decided to go out to lunch rather than clean.
We tried a Mexican place over in Worcester.


i got what was billed at a marinated shrimp mixed with avocado dish.

There were lots of shrimp. But, more cilantro than avocado. And, I’m not big on cilantro.

Then we went over to the Barnes and Noble bookstore in the same mall.
I know they say on line orders are hurting them. I know these days I do 80% of my reading on my iPad.
But, I was not expecting whole sections of the store to be empty.
This is the Shakespeare section:

Mathematics was no better off:


Stock was so thin, that this is what’s happening to the Adipose in the store.


I guess I made the problem worse as I bought 2 DVDs, not any books. Last time I was there I did buy books.
But, it’s a bad trend for folks (like me) who like bookstores.

Comments

[pallid-regina.livejournal.com]

Wow. You know it's bad when the Adipose is anorexic.

[mariness.livejournal.com]

:: head in hands ::

Various writers and small press folk at Worldcon were asking "What is going to be happening with Barnes and Noble" and this is not reassuring.

I'm assuming they were moving stock around (they couldn't have sold out of Shakespeare) but to do that on the weekend????

[fbhjr.livejournal.com]

I certainly hope they are just moving stock around.
But, I didn't see any carts or anything holding a lot of other books...

[endlessblush.livejournal.com]

Is that bookstore closing down? It's so sad to see all those empty shelves.

Nostalgia: Books and Newtons

[gilden.livejournal.com]

Sad to see brick and mortar bookstores having problems.
On a similar, but vaguely related note:
I thought that this comprehensive postmortem on the Newton might interest some folks:
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2013/09/17/20_years_of_the_apple_newton/