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Ya gotta love Barnes and Noble.

Markw

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After reading that thread on various audio magazines, both past and present, I've come to a conclusion.

Ya gotta love Barnes and Noble.

Where else can you go and read any and all audio magazines, and any magazines at all for that matter. ....for free!

And, if that's not enough, you can get coffee and various yuppie drinks and snacks to enjoy while you drool over the new, overpriced stuff you know you can't afford!

But wait, there's more!!! :banana:

Now you even have free access to the internet, as long as your 'puter has a decent battery and a built-in wireless card.

So, bring in some earplugs, pick up a book, magazine or even a comic book and/or surf the net, all for free and having the option of enjoying a drink and snack if you don't mind dropping a few bucks.

I mean, how cool is that?

Oh, you can buy books as well...
 
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I go to the one in downtown Ft. Worth just about every weekend, but I take my college football magazine with me. They keep it about 68 to 70F in there during the hot summer. It's one of the few places I know where the women working there haven't gotten their way with the temp--which is always up. Yeah, $4 for an iced mocha is tough, but it's a good way to spend some time.

Like your signature line there.
 
It's such a neat place, I'm sure to not take advantage and I do buy something, whether the magazine I'm reading or a book or CD as a gift.

Same for Borders Books.



Be sure to support these companies that make an effort to give you something more than muzak and cheap goods and trinkets.
 
Not to mention the fact that they have a fair selection of diverse music! I love both B&N and Borders for all of the above :)
 
Borders is where we usually go. My wife and I both buy food and sit there reading magazines. It's a cheap date! I always check the reduced CD rack, sometimes I find a gem.
 
I prefer Borders to B&N simply because they sell Seattle's Best instead of Starbucks. I get all the Starbucks I can handle just because of their saturation tactics. I enjoy something else when I get the chance. In fact I took advantage of having a car today and went and bought a book at lunch time (Inherent Vice, Thomas Pynchon just in case you wanted to know).
 
I'm also a coffee shop fan.

Why a coffee shop junkie? As Barnes and Noble and Borders, I also support them- I don't mind paying a but more for a fancy named drink, because at the coffee shops, they're supplying free newspapers (they buy a stack each morning and they're complimentary), a comfy place to sit (iKea couches usually), a friendly social atmosphere, and often, live music entertainment.


Pretty nice!
 
I'm glad that someone else uses this as a cheap date and, yeah, we do go into the ones in College Station and Austin when we're in Texas to rest, cool off, and get away from the family for a few minutes of solitude. :D

I do buy stuff on occasion, but I always put the magazines back when we leave, not leave a 6" pile on the tales like some selfish SOB's do. They do have a pretty good selection of 7.99 CD's right now and I just picked up a few to fill uot my collection and for gifts.

As for music, they are slowly doing away with that section. What was about one quarter of the store is now down to about two rows and DVD's have taken over the whole section.

About ten years ago, there was a Borders in East Brunswick, NJ that had a music section to die for. It was better than most music only stores but alas, it's shrunken as to be almost useless.
 
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elcoholic said:
I prefer Borders to B&N simply because they sell Seattle's Best instead of Starbucks. I get all the Starbucks I can handle just because of their saturation tactics. I enjoy something else when I get the chance. In fact I took advantage of having a car today and went and bought a book at lunch time (Inherent Vice, Thomas Pynchon just in case you wanted to know).
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Uh, Seattle's Best Coffee is a subsidiary of Starbucks.
 
Are you sh!tting me? Jeeze I just goggled that. How about the Coffee Bean & Tea Leaf? Daily Grind? Kean? Is there no escape?
 
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Also, if you sit in the Starbuck$ seating area drinking a Green Tea Frappuccino it is a sign that you are single and looking to get laid immediately or ASAP. :D
Seriously, go look for rings on anyone's finger in that seating area.:thmbsp:


Ardvaark
:music:
 
Does anyone else think that starbucks coffee tastes like the burnt bottom of the pot. I'm talking coffee not the fufu stuff. Which I do like by the way
 
I'm a fan of B&N as well. They always manage to play great music when I'm there... I've picked up a few CDs on the spot. I usually camp out near either the stereo or automotive magazines for an hour or so.

I like Borders especially for the comic section, but much less now since they totally eliminated their music department. :grumpy:
 
I prefer Starbucks to, sorry New Englanders, the dreck that I get at Dunkin' Donuts. Dunkin Donuts is widely inconsistent and not all franchise owners or employees thereof serve it fresh or "clean".

I think Starbucks is a bit heavy handed on the roasting, but I like the results. I also like that they buy first tier beans (albiet the last of them) and they offer their employees, I'm told, health insurance.


Lastly, the local Starbucks offer NEW MUSIC for sale- from Jazz or Blues samplers to new artists to interesting compilations.




Still, Krispy Kreme remains king of the donuts.



And what's up with Tim Horton's? I've been to the Portland ME one twice, and it was terrible. Is this consistant with Tim Horton's, or have I just had a bad experience, twice?
 
Honeydew gets my vote for the Bear Claws. Mary Lou's News gets my vote for mixed coffee drinks.

Mary Lou's, however, gets minus points for creepy middle aged men flirting with the (admittedly skimpy and/or provocatively dressed) teenage high school girls that work there. They are ubiquitous.
 
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