A bind at the bookshop

YOUR caption for the picture of Borders Books in Glasgow (“Life’s simple pleasures”, The Herald, May 18) suggested that customers could enjoy a coffee with some newly purchased books. My experience of Borders’ coffee shop was that people took large bundles of books in, flicked through them and left them for the staff to put back on the shelf, likewise the magazine section where the stock got very dog-eared by “customers” using it as a library rather than buying.

Perhaps this partly explains why Borders closed.

Stuart Neville,

Clydebank.