Borders RIP

Well, the time has finally come. The end of Borders has just about arrived. Even though I've only known about the retail chain for fifteen years, it has been in existence for about forty. They had an excellent selection of books and certainly a fair percentage of my large book collection came from a Borders store somewhere. Up to the early part of this year they had five stores in Manhattan and another store in the Glendale part of Queens that I shopped on occasion. Now there are only two in Manhattan and the Glendale store, all in the last stages of liquidation. As I write this, the store in Penn Station has two days left and the remaining stores pretty much should be done within the week.