Have you shopped at Barnes & Noble in the last year?

There are still more books that I want.

I love going to B & N when we go to Jacksonville, NC. I'd hate to see that close!" Books a Million" is OK but can't compare with B&N.; I could stay in there all day and still never be done!

i go to the library, in fact i'm in one at this very moment.

About 2 or 3 days ago.

I love the store. I now get most of my books on kindle though.

Most have closed near me. With e books so popular, it looks like printed books may someday not be around. Sad.

They're cool stores but they can be expensive. I think people go there to hang out, read, buy coffee, then they go home and buy what they like from amazon.

It is time well spent even if you don't buy anything.

So very, very true!!!

Ummm, I'm not even sure if we have Barnes & Noble in Canada... never seen one. Usually just go to used bookstores.

Barnes and Nobles is my place to go for books.

I love books

I get a lot of CDs and classic books there

It makes me very sad to hear that B&N; is struggling now, after Borders' demise.

I don't think so. I don't read very much anyway, (which I know is terrible of me) and the nearest Barnes & Noble is pretty far from where I live, so I don't get the chance to much. But I do prefer paper books to digital. There's just something about paper books that digital books don't have.

Oh well, libraries are alive and well.

Kinda reminds me what happened to Borders; all of their stores closing... though I never went to Borders; I always go to Barnes and Noble! ^__^

And my granddaughter loves the place..

For those of you who say that we don't need physical books or actual bookstores anymore, speak for yourself, I love bookstores! Especially Barnes & Noble.

The smell and the feel is just amazing in there. Surrounded by tons of brand new books giving off that new book smell, so many pages waiting to be read. The nice little cafe that has the whole place smelling like good coffee and hot chocolate.
And it's not noisy or anything, it's rather calm and quiet and peaceful. Just browsing through all those shelves and looking at all the different covers and titles.

It makes me feel nostalgic for something, though I'm not entirely sure what. Childhood, maybe? The 90's? I don't know. It just makes me feel good. I don't want to see that go.

I feel like the world is losing everything that was ever great about it, bit by bit. Replaced with easy-access technology and artificial everything. It makes me sad

I agree with you. I love the smell.

Very well stated! You hit the nail right on the head!

But I don't plan on stopping completely.

no

The staff was less-than cordial when I visited the one on the 16th Street Mall in Denver. So, I haven't been back since... Of course, Denver businesses are known for their lack of customer care, so I shouldn't have expected something better.

Only because I haven't been in town. It's a nice bookstore that sells things I like: books, music, and Blu Rays. The thing now is that yes: I do most of my reading on a Kindle now and when I want or need a hard copy, I prefer to order online from Amazon.

i buy my books entirely on amazon.com, haven't set foot in a bookstore in many years

Damn, I thought they'd be squared after they bought "Borders". Yes, I still do....

The thing is a lot of people buy online now, so even if it's Barnes& Noble that people buy online from, they're wasting money keeping stores open.

Actually, B&N didn't buy Borders, they just outlasted them. Borders couldn't find any buyers, and had to liquidate all their remaining stores, after making numerous cuts to their stores, and selling off bits of the company for several years prior to their actually going out of business.

Aw....I absolutely LOVE Barnes & Noble! To hear them closing up their stores, even though it's a couple, breaks my heart. It's one of the few places I go to for my work breaks; the smell of books and coffee actually helps me relax. I just hope they won't close the store near me. :(

I buy as much as I can online and I am sorry I have to do that. I would love to go to a store and make a purchase like in the old days BUT the people (my fellow shoppers) have gotten ruder, dumber and meaner and I do not feel like being around them.

Keep in mind, I run a brick and mortar business and I do what I can to keep my locals coming to me but I have been shipping more and more to people out of state and I kind of prefer it actually.

I shop at a local bookstore called Anthology. They've got great selection and the people who work there are really cool.

only went there twice.. but i found Help! there and i nearly passed out i thought i would never find the movie in stores.. and they had more selection of dvds and cds there of george harrison, john lennon, and Paul macca!

For me, that's sad. There's something almost intoxicating about being surrounded by thousands of books and casually wandering the rows to select additions to your home library; and NO, online shopping doesn't give you the same feeling.

I would love to, but my budget for books right now has me resorting to amazon. They have good cheap books there, book stores are nice to be in, theyre cozy, but too pricy for me.

When I shopped at Barnes and Noble last summer, I was appalled at the difficulty in getting the book that is critical about Barack Obama's White House, entitled the Amateur. It took me five hours of persistence to buy the book! The first store told me they were out of it after forty-five minutes of computer search for it but supplied me with a list of alternative books favorable to the nanny style government of Obama. Then after I demanded that they search other stores, they found a copy 25 miles away at another BN store. When I arrived at the second store, I had to search for the person who was supposed to be staffing the "will call" section and found him in the coffee shop. He grudgingly returned to his post and found the book for me. Then after standing in line for about 20 minutes to buy the book, the computer immediately went down when the clerk input the title! This could have been coincidence, but I had just watched at least five people ahead of me having no difficulty with computer dysfunction in making their purchases. It seemed to be the title of my selection that caused the problem. After waiting another 20 minutes and telling them I would wait all night if necessary, I finally managed to buy the book. If BN goes out of business, it will their be agenda of supporting the government dictatorship through subtle censorship that causes their downfall

Books there seem rather expensive, and where do you sit to read there? Almost impossible to find enough good books critical of Big Brother government or about how to expatriate out of Babylon America. It is easier to find what I want, online. But I have been reluctant to purchase e-books. Should I buy printed-on-paper or in e-book form?

That's where I got my whole family their Christmas presents. And a whole bunch of other stuff for myself. I still got a $50 gift card to spend there.

Where else am I supposed to buy my manga & metal CDs?

If your brick & mortar source of manga disappears, try Rightstuf.com, they're awesome, the manga's always 25% off, and you don't have to buy something that's been read by 20 people freeloading in the bookstore ahead of you.