Do you think it is rude to go to a Barnes and Noble and read a whole book?

I guess some feel as if libraries don’t have mochasippies.

Of course not. If it was, they would close down the store. There are enough people that buy to make it worthwhile.

I do it all the time. Then again, I’m a rude person.

They are making money of your “mochasippie” anyway. I’ve done it a few times with mangas. They are such a quick read for me that I have a very hard time justifying spending the money on them and being done with them in a matter of minutes. I usually buy other books though when I’m there. I actually don’t go to B&N though, I go to Hastings.

I don’t go to Barnes and Noble anymore. I used to enjoy it until I realized what they were doing to my independent book sellers.

It appears to be a good place to find your books…but, the expense (nothing to do with money) is too great for me. Even with mochasippies.

As @YARNLADY said, there are enough people who buy to keep them in business.

I just don’t feel comfortable sitting in a public place unnecessarily. If I have to be someplace (airport, doctors waiting room, etc), I’ve always got a book under my nose.

I feel the same way as @MissA about B&N, Lauriat and Amazon shoving out the locals. I’ll stick with the little shops in Hanover, they can order anything that Amazon can get.

Yes, rude because you are wearing out their merchandise with fingerprints and coffee stains.

Support your local library.

I appreciate Borders and Barnes & Noble. And I am lucky enough to have a local independent store. When I’m spending, I go to a book store.

For free, I go to the library.

I don’t know. I like reading at home.

@lillycoyote would you consider reading in public lewd?

@Ltryptophan It depends on the book, but in the end, what happens between me and a book stays between me and the book. No book clubs for me, no group or public readings, it’s a private matter. ;)

Reading a bit isn’t bad. You’re spending your money on a product that may or may not turn out to be a dud. I’ve bought books that, after a few chapters in, kinda grossed me out or it went over my head.

@py sue, what makes the barnes and noble experience better than your library?

@Ltryptophan Because of where I live, I have to pay 22 bucks a month to have a library card. It has to do with me living in the wrong county which is weird because I live about 10 miles away from it.

@py_sue It’s terrible what public libraries have to do in order to survive these days. Our small-town library is free, but only because a handful of us heavily subsidize it.

If I decided to buy a new book from a bookshop, I wouldn’t want it to have been previously read cover-to-cover by someone else.

I suppose, if I went to somewhere like Borders (although it’d be hard, they all went into administration here), I’d be paying a premium for the book because of the fact that it wasn’t second-hand and hadn’t been read before. Presumably, people who don’t mind or prefer to buy second-hand books (like me) wouldn’t choose to shop at a store that only sold new books, since it’s more expensive. Therefore, if someone is shopping there, I’d assume they are doing so because they want something brand new, and they do mind whether or not it’s been read before. Either that, or they have money to burn.

Therefore, I suppose it is a little inconsiderate, in the sense that it isn’t really respecting other customers who end up paying for something that you used first. Furthermore, presumably once books get stained or damaged enough by customers who don’t pay for them, the book store can’t sell them. Don’t get me wrong, I don’t think huge international bookstores like Borders or Barnes and Noble urgently need protecting, but in any business of any size, I imagine if lots of book-damaging goes on, prices are probably driven higher for those people who do choose to pay for what they read. And I guess that’s rather shoddy and unfair too.

I very rarely buy new books and prefer to buy them used from Amazon marketplace, eBay or second hand bookshops. The only time I really buy new books is when I can’t locate something that I want second-hand. Unfortunately, our local library is for absolute cretins.

It is bad form to do that.Just buy the book or go to the fucking libarary.That’s right! ;)

Nope. Books are expensive.

@lucillelucillelucille Sometimes you go to the library and they don’t have the book you’re looking for. Sometimes they can’t get it in for you, either.

@xRIPxTHEREVx -True enough,but I still wouldn’t use a bookstore as a library.

If they didn’t want people to do it, they wouldn’t have the sitting areas for you to do it.

Just because one can do something doesn’t mean one should!

@lucillelucillelucille understandable. If everyone did this, there would be no bookstore cause they wouldn’t have the funds for the bills. :/