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Time to start dumpster diving, readers! Inhabitat.com reports that Borders plans to trash any unsold books after the company closes the few remaining Waldenbooks stores (around 200 of them) by the end of January. According to the story public libraries around the country are contacting the stores to ask for donations, but it's cheaper for Borders just to rip off the covers and dump 'em.
Read the whole sad truth here.
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Bookstore dumpsters are the cleanest around!
Posted by: Joey Johnson | January 19, 2010 at 03:18 PM