You've got to hand it to Borders. Their deep catalog cannot be beaten; to do better you have to go to Amazon.com, and do you really want to wait a week for a book you want to start reading tonight?

59th St. When Borders Book Shop (as it was once known) opened in Ann Arbor circa 1971, selling both new and used books, it was far from the behemoth it is today. Since then, however, they’ve ...