i hate barnes and noble

[quizlixx]

actually, i love it. i just can't ever walk out of there without having just spent over 50 bucks. at this rate, i'm gonna neeed to get a second job at 15 to fuel my intellectual curiosity.

[rlrose328]

Well, get a job there and at least you'll get a discount.   :banna:    And it was only $20!

[Steve Reason]

actually, i love it. i just can't ever walk out of there without having just spent over 50 bucks. at this rate, i'm gonna neeed to get a second job at 15 to fuel my intellectual curiosity.

I rarely go in, what sort of humanist/atheist section do they have?

[curiosityandthecat]

actually, i love it. i just can't ever walk out of there without having just spent over 50 bucks. at this rate, i'm gonna neeed to get a second job at 15 to fuel my intellectual curiosity.

I rarely go in, what sort of humanist/atheist section do they have?

It's actually quite insulting (though I can only speak for Borders, I would imagine they're close to identical, in the same way Blockbuster and Hollywood Video are). The way they categorize secular books is really disappointing. Huge sections on Christian literature and Biblical/motivational clap trap, and all else gets relegated to a (rather vaguely defined) "Philosophy" section. That's why every time I go in there, I do this:

[Tanker]

While I do buy new books I go to used book stores alot, the exact same content, usually half the price. There are however those ocasions when I've been waiting for a sequal and don't want to wait anymore or a new book comes out that I want to read NOW. The only real draw back to used book stores is they don't always have the best selection while new book stores can order what you want. When I do go to Barnes and Noble or Borders for that matter I try to limit myself to 2 o 3 books. I alway feel this empowering sense of waiting knowlege when I go into a book store or library and I just can't understand why so many people don't like to read.

[rlrose328]

I love to go to Powell's Books in Portland.  It's HUGE and the selection of used books is usually pretty decent, though they charge more for roughly used books than I think is fair.  I HAD to have an older Jackie Collins book in August and they had one.  It was a paperback that looked like it had been through the laundry and they were charging just $1 less than new.  It's out of print so I couldn't GET it new or I would have. (It's a book I've read many times through the library and I decided I wanted to add it to my library.)

Curio, I LOVE that inspirational poster you made... it's perfect!  

[Tom62]

My wife and I also love huge bookshops, like Barnes and Nobles, Borders and Hugendubel (in Munich). We spend hours in them. Normally my wife starts off in the management book section while I checkout the latest SciFi  books. We finally run into each other at the computer books, where I'm normally looking for the more "geeky" programming stuff while my wife "hunts" for project management books. For cheap secondhand or out of print books I can recommend www.abebooks.com.

[Chimera]

I love Barnes and Noble so much. I have a membership so I really enjoy the discount, and every so often they send me a coupon for an extra 15% off any item. I could (and have, on many occasions) spend hours in there.

[jrosebud]

I haven't been to B&N much now that I work at Half Price Books.  It takes a little patience waiting for the titles I really want, but now I get them for a fourth of the price used.  Now my only problem is figuring out where to put them all.  

[EvolutionCalling]

I'm a Books-A-Million fan.  I think the B&N stores in my area are a bit pretentious.

[Chimera]

I kinda wish we had Books-A-Million here. We have one B&N, one Borders, and about 3 Hastings stores in my city. It'd be nice to have another bookstore to go to...especially if they built it close to my house.

[ONZero]

We go to the library about once a week.  The property taxes here in Cook County (IL) detail $250 a year for the library system.  So given that, we use the library.  I am not against buying a book, but we cut down to even out the expenses.  I know the bookstore pull - and it is not a bad current to swim in...

[Chimera]

I love going to the library, but I owe fines right now and I have no monies. LOL

[Tom62]

I haven't visited a library for more than 30 years, because 1. their foreign language (English) sections are too small and 2. they never seemed to have the books that I was interested in.

[Squid]

I refuse to pay cover price for books - it's ridiculous to pay $25.00 for a paperback.  I hit up half price books or I use Amazon or (like some already mentioned) Abebooks.  The only time I've paid full price for a book in the last two years was when I was buying text books for classes and we all know how insane those prices are.