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5 reviews for Barnes & Noble Booksellers
I love the way books smell. :)
It makes me happy. New books, just opening it up and taking a big whiff makes me smile!
This location is my favorite. It's not new to hear that most people come into Barnes & Noble without money. Most people come in here to browse, to relax and lounge...and whatever else there is to do at a Barnes & Noble. This specific location is HUGE! Something I also really love about this location is the layout. It's very easy to navigate.
So, we've established that I love this location. :) Specifically because of their staff. Their staff is great and knowledgeable! They're always very welcoming and do not make you feel like you're in the way. Nice people make a business work. Congrats B&N Brodie location, you've captured my heart.
It's nice to know that during the recession and with competition from http://Amazon.com, Barnes and Noble is doing so well and doesn't need my money or future business!
I walked in to get this weeks issue of Entertainment Weekly with the Seinfeld reunion cover. I stopped reading that rag 15 years ago, but I really felt I needed this issue being the huge Seinfeld fan I am.
I looked all over for it and finally asked someone. The cashier tells me all the new magazines are in the back in a box and they can't put them out since their computers are down. And no they can't even get one from the back for me. I was welcome to try another Barnes And Noble though!
Brilliant move since magazines have such a short shelf life. Definitely doesn't make me want to go back for anything else. Amazon takes longer, but at least it's cheaper!
Let me make a disclaimer. I shop at Half Price. I Craigslist and Freecycle, abstain from corporate coffee (except those damn bottled Frappucinos - damn you Wade for not bottling the Iced Mojo!), and am otherwise a proper, trendy, Austinite snob.
But I love this Borders. It's big. It smells like a big bookstore should - scents of particle boards, cheap ink, and thin pages on flimsy paperbacks and over-hyped large print thrillers in badly bound hardback. Ah, corporate publishing presses, how I missed thee. I think.
My experiences here are always twisted, Phillip K. Dick style. I go looking for a certain Star Wars paperback (yes, dammit, it's better than Trek, and I'll stab you with my lightsaber for disagreeing), which they don't have. So I ask the info desk lady, who reminds me strangely of my mother ten years ago, ever so helpful but slightly judgemental, and she informs me its out of print until next month, at which point they will have 30. Freaking 30. That's a lot of trade paperbacks. As I walk away to browse for another random sci-fi or fantasy novel to consume, as teenage girl asks El Informacion for a book of celebrity's home addresses.
Um, effing creepy! Thankfully, El Informacion denied the child, explaining that people just don't want to pay $75 for that very often. She did NOT offer to order it. DENIED. I'm sure that Zac Efron and Jesse McCartney are thankful, wherever they are.
I like Half Price better. I like tiny little small bookstores better, but I don't know any of those here, and they usually don't carry Star Wars paperbacks, either. So this Barnes & Nobles? Well, it'll do, Pig, it'll do.
PS - Minus a star for being in Sunset Valley. I hate that place.
I used to go to the location in the Arboretum when I lived up north but I have to say I like this one better. It's easier to navigate and laid out in a more logical order. I have never been able to come here and leave without a new purchase. I already have an entire shelf of my bookcase lined up with books that I'm waiting to read but I am still inspired to collect more every time I come into this B&N.
I have to give this place 5 stars & yes I know it's a chain. Why? First let me state this disclaimer, I love books, always have, always will. The other reason is I have gotten 5 star service every time I have been here. Here's an example. Last week my 11 year old son tells me he has a list of books from school for summer reading. He has to read 2 and do a report before school resumes in order to be allowed into 7th grade in August. Well we searched his closet for hours (yes its that messy) and couldn't find the list from school. So we went to the school website & started writing down the book we thought were on the list, later to find out they weren't the right list anyway. I go to the counter to ask the clerk to help me find the book The Wish List & he has in his magic binder a photocopy of the exact same list my son misplaced. Woo Hoo, we are in business now. He loans me the list & we get our books. If only my son loved reading as much as me. They say it skips a generation.