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No restrooms. Try Amazon.

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If you’ve stepped into a closing Borders Books you might have seen a handwritten sign about the sales and get-it-now bargains. Maybe you’ve seen a sign or two that was printed there in the store. Did you see this one? ‘No Restrooms - Try Amazon.’

It’s among more than a dozen photos that Buzzfeed has gathered from around the Web (see them here). There are pictures of altered signage, exasperated jokes and wry humor: empty bookshelves with the sign ‘FREE AIR GUITARS. Please take one!’

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The bankruptcy of a massive bookstore isn’t funny. Except when it is.

-- Carolyn Kellogg

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