Sidenote: Borders is one of my favorite stores too. The Dearborn Borders and Store #1 have been my favorites for two decades, and I wrote my entire diss -- all of it -- in a Borders cafe. The kids who ran the coffee shop kept me plied with coffee and goodies -- often, I didn't even have to get up. In turn, I did almost all of my brick and mortar book-buying there.

I started off working at the Barnes & Noble on Washtenaw since it was midway between home and campus, and did quite a lot of my precandidacy work there. I invested in the B&N membership and spent a lot of my discretionary income there, including non-book items [[B&N had cooler journals, book bags, and mugs than Borders in my opinion.) I stopped going there for one reason: the bathrooms were always absolutely filthy. None of the area Borders ever let their lavatories disintegrate like that, so I was glad when the Lohr Road store opened. Can't remember if it was in '07 or '08.