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Jul. 20th, 2011 10:42 amThere is something really satisfying to me about crafting a status update that people "like" on Facebook, and the nearest analogue I can think of in the fannish part of my life are kudos on AO3, but kudos (while I do enjoy them!) just aren't the same. I wonder if it's more the immediacy of the feedback, or the source, given that kudos largely come from strangers and well after the fact of creation. I suppose I could start using my empty fannish tumblr to try to separate that out, but no.
I am going to miss Borders, but I fully admit that I am part of the cause of its demise. The Borders nearest where I live now (which closed in the first wave a while back) is part of many of my high school memories. At that point I was still reading professionally published fiction voraciously, and the idea of a bookstore where I could go hang out with my friends for a couple hours on a Friday night was pretty awesome.
Now I almost never walk into a big-box bookstore unless it's time for Christmas shopping. I made a trip to B&N a month ago to flip through some travel guides before buying two. That trip also got me two books of logic puzzles (the kind with the grid. Love them.) and a copy of The Best American Science and Nature Writing 2010 because there was an employee who helped me to remember what the title was. I suppose Google could have done that part, though.
I am going to miss Borders, but I fully admit that I am part of the cause of its demise. The Borders nearest where I live now (which closed in the first wave a while back) is part of many of my high school memories. At that point I was still reading professionally published fiction voraciously, and the idea of a bookstore where I could go hang out with my friends for a couple hours on a Friday night was pretty awesome.
Now I almost never walk into a big-box bookstore unless it's time for Christmas shopping. I made a trip to B&N a month ago to flip through some travel guides before buying two. That trip also got me two books of logic puzzles (the kind with the grid. Love them.) and a copy of The Best American Science and Nature Writing 2010 because there was an employee who helped me to remember what the title was. I suppose Google could have done that part, though.
