Barnes & Noble

[Anonymous No.11210148]

>walk into Barnes & Noble
>rap music playing loudly on speakers; impossible to focus on reading something
>75% of the store is "gifts and collectibles"
>in-store Starbucks probably pays the store's bills
>only books promoted are Strong Empowered Women You Should Worship, Star Wars, or Trump Something Something
>selection of actual /lit/ books gets smaller and smaller every season

When will it end?

[Anonymous No.11211811]

>>11210148
When you pass away OP

[Anonymous No.11211908]

>>11210148
stop being a flyover.

[Anonymous No.11211951]

>>11210148
You must go to a ghetto city. I live in Columbus, Ohio, and all our B&N are top of the line.

[Anonymous No.11212473]

>>11210148
my barnes and noble is great, has philosophers and authors on a giant canvas near the starbucks, a small magazine section, and a whole shelf dedicated to /lit/tier books (gravities rainbow, beyond good and evil, infinite jest, the stranger).

theres always a nigger with green hair at the counter though which infuriates me but other than that its great

[Anonymous No.11212714]

>>11210148
A M A Z O N !

[Anonymous No.11212728]

>>11211908
exactly, i was gonna say between the big ass 4 story BN at union square and the BN textbook annex a block away, nyc barnes and nobles are pretty dank, that one down by wtc is not bad either, always had the shit i was looking for

[Anonymous No.11212734]

>in Barnes&Noble yesterday
>see a black guy cross-legged on the floor reading
>don't think much of it
>can't believe Barnes&Noble doesn't carry Goethe what a fucking shithole
>start walking out
>"aaahhahahaha oh my"
>look at the black guy to see what book he's laughing at
>the subtle art of not giving a f*ck
>tfw
true btw

[Anonymous No.11212840]

>>11210148
>take the train into Cambridge, Mass
>several bookstores in a half square mile area
>choose one
>classical music playing softly
>people quietly discussing literature
>browse around
>selection is large
>notice there's a downstairs of used books
>the selection of used books is better than the selection of new books at my own local bookstore

[Anonymous No.11212855]

>>11212840
yo i used to love the way the radio would sound in "12th street books" i know gentified to death used bookstore/vinyl store in formerly in manhattan, like the accoustics were so patrish, idk what they played sometimes the talk part sounded like wnyc but then they would play music maybe it was that one with the stickers that say "fuck off weirdo" or something, wfmu i think idk, but it was so comfy to browse that motherfucker

[Anonymous No.11212861]

>>11212714

>supporting any of the tentacular arms of GAFA-Google, Apple, Facebook, Amazon beyond the absolute minimum necessary for daily existence

get a load of this goyim.

[Anonymous No.11212864]

>>11212840
Fuck I miss living in Boston. LA makes me want to fucking die daily.

[Anonymous No.11212867]

>>11210148
I find it hard to believe this, mainly because you can find classic French literature in most airport bookstores.

[Anonymous No.11212873]

>>11212840
>>11212864
I forgot to mention how there's literally a store that just sells poetry collections

[Anonymous No.11212878]

>>11212734
delete this lewd

[Anonymous No.11212891]

>>11212873
me on the left

[Anonymous No.11212957]

>>11212873
>>11212873
manhattan used to have a store with only detective novels but i think it got gentrified to death

[Anonymous No.11213025]

>>11212878
how?

[Anonymous No.11213148]

>>11212873
>>11212957

My area isn't that patrician but it's also quite /lit/. The library system is robust, the newspapers and rags are many, and in addition to dozens of B&Ns (at which I've special ordered multiple items, most recently Xi Jinping's Governance of China), real bookstores include a fine used bookstore downtown, a general used bookstore at a major intersection in the #2 city/capital (they had a jumbo-sized Jung's Red Book last time I was there, and a big green Book of Kells which dad also has), a second-floor shop near the university with some rarities and along the same lines (tried looking for some Cocteau here once), a few occult bookstores, a formidably stocked sci-fi/fantasy/weeaboo shop with a good general and specialty selection (I got Giger's huge art books here, they also have a Psychopathia Sexualis and some Anarchist Cookbooks in the edgy area last I checked), a few literal gommunist/leftist shops (called infoshops as I later learned, got society of spectacle (read) and volumes of Capital (unread) at one), a dedicated mystery-only shop a few blocks from here for which I haven't much personal interest but I checked it out once on principle, a rather dirty and weird but well stocked joint sci-fi/mystery shop (I got an anthology containing the original short story for The Thing here for 3bux once), and others I'm not mentioning. Not to mention several university bookstores and libraries (alumnus of one) which have proved useful. Pop-up stores come and go. There's a rather quiet place I was in like two years ago that didn't seem like it would last, little old lady. But she had Benvenuto Cellini's autobiography for sale so respeck.

I actually don't have a general public library card, need to fix that soon. The local library system has at least one volume that I'm interested in.

[Anonymous No.11213592]

Man I miss Powell's.
Also Half Price Books, anon.

[Anonymous No.11213667]

>Live in a nice New England college town
>B&N is two stories with a huge selection of both non-fiction and fiction as well as the the regular Kids/Magazine section. Several shelfs for poetry
>Staff is genuinely friendly and helpful
>Used bookstores in town that are good for more obscure selections but have a faggoty hipster vibe

>Move to shitty desert city
>B&N is the size of a small Trader Joe's
>Kids/Music/Magazines/Bullshit is half the store
>Non-genre fiction section is one column wide and 5 rows deep
>Philosophy section is literally 1 single bookshelf
>Cookbook section is 8 shelfs
>Worker literally told me to look on their computer instead of just telling me where their poetry section is
>It's 1 half sized shelf on the dividing wall of the Kids section
>4 separate front facing copies of Milk & Honey and like 15 total
>Always full of loud ass teenagers and 50+ year old upscale types who sigh audibly if you are "in their way"
>Used bookstores in town are faggoty and cater to the Sci-fi/Fantasy crowd and are across the city from my Barrio.

[Anonymous No.11213766]

>>11210148
Can anyone remind me of who this frog is modeled after? I thought it was Harold Bloom.

[Anonymous No.11214411]

>go to barnes & nobles
>get lost in the 5-story Starbucks megaopolis in the middle of the store

[Anonymous No.11214448]

>>11212861
Apple is shit but the internet without the other three is barely worth using.

[Anonymous No.11214488]

>>11210148
>Walk into Blackwells
>Can't find literary fiction book I'm looking for
>"Maybe they put it in the philosophy section"
>Walk over to philosophy section
>It's 50% Marx

Nice fucking meme. It's like walking into Holland and Barrett and seeing their homeopathy section marketed as actual supplements.

[Anonymous No.11214746]

>>11214488
>want a book
>go to Foyles
>they have my book

wish it looked less like an apple store though desu

[Jeff Mangum Died For Your Sins !rAl8Mz2mp2 No.11214750]

>>11212840
Sitting down on one of those chairs they had near the mezzanine and reading film magazines are the comfiest memories I have of my teens. Made up for the resentment I felt over not being accepted into Harvard despite by dumber brother getting in

[Anonymous No.11214763]

>>11214746
That's the one in Leicester Square innit? Apple Store design choices are mainly a ground floor thing, the actual shelves are fine. Some real niche authors in there too. e.g. Gabrielle Wittkop

[Anonymous No.11214766]

>>11214448
>2018
>still uses Facebook
Are you amerimutt by any change?

[Anonymous No.11215869]

>>11212473
Why can't it be like this everywhere

[Anonymous No.11215885]

>>11213667
>4 separate front facing copies of Milk & Honey and like 15 total

Argh you fuckin' got me there.

[Anonymous No.11216042]

>>11214448

Oh my sweet summer child.

[Anonymous No.11216082]

>>11214448
imagine being this much of a pleb

[Anonymous No.11216108]

>>11210148
>tfw live in a rich Jewish area of Brooklyn so the barnes and nobles near me has a fully stocked history, philosophy, politics, classic fiction, occult, religion including buddhism and hinduism, science, art, etc.

[Anonymous No.11216242]

>>11211908
>just don't live anywhere but California brah x)
die

[Anonymous No.11217251]

>>11211908
>Stop being a flyover
Stop being a coastal

[Anonymous No.11217266]

>>11212861
>he said, while completing yet another captcha for the google deep learning projects
also amazon is good they give me every book with a 15% discount I don't care about how many chinese children they eat for lunch

[Anonymous No.11217634]

>>11216042
Back to Tumblr.

[Anonymous No.11217647]

>>11211908
“There’s stupid hippie shit at every bookstore” is the most coastal problem I can think of. I know, I’ve lived in South City, (not SF) CA and Tampa Fl my entire life.

[Anonymous No.11217654]

>>11210148
>Strong Empowered Women You Should Worship

>self promoters who variously claim to be nutritionists, entrepreneurs, and social media experts, but who, unlike Tim Ferriss, have never done anything exceptional in their entire lives

[Anonymous No.11217658]

>>11212473
I too, get angry when I see someone with ugly hair. In fact I get so upset about it that I anonymously complain about that ugly hair online.

[Anonymous No.11217663]

>>11212734
That was Chad

[Anonymous No.11217679]

>>11214488
>Holland and Barrett and seeing their homeopathy section marketed as actual supplements.
Does this really happen, I think I’d actually get angry if I saw that irl?

[Anonymous No.11217685]

>>11217634
He’s right

[Anonymous No.11217740]

>See acquaintance in B&N
>Greet him etc
>He doesn't have anything, assumed he first got there
>Be on my way
Two days later
>Sit across from him on break.
>He pulls out a copy of 12 rules for Life by Jordan Peterson with illustrations.
>Visibly chuckle thinking of all the /lit/ and /pol/ memes.

[Anonymous No.11217967]

>>11210148
I feel ya buddy. At my local bookstore, there's no longer a classics sections. Just celebrity biographies and cookbooks.

[Anonymous No.11218004]

>>11210148
Yeah it's fucked, you also need an offline list for stuff to look for because they throttle the internet to avoid people using amazon.
>>11211908
Similar issues though, the NYC ones are like 4 floors and have better selections, but they still have whole floors dedicated to non-book bullshit.

[Anonymous No.11219226]

>>11213766
I think it's the Tim Heidecker image

[Anonymous No.11219232]

>>11212473
A nigger nigger or a "nigger" nigger?

[Anonymous No.11219238]

>>11210148
>paying for books that aren't copyrighted

[Anonymous No.11219240]

>>11217658
when ur normal and not mad that someone made fun of ur shitty hair on 4chan

[Anonymous No.11219276]

>>11212840
But you're surrounded by the scum of the earth.

[Anonymous No.11220930]

>>11212473
>gravities

xd

[Anonymous No.11221303]

>>11219232
a real negro, an uppity negro at that

[Anonymous No.11221322]

>>11212714
Nice bait...

[Anonymous No.11221330]

>go to local used bookstore
>no music playing
>aisles are narrow and shelves go up to the ceiling
>always find stuff i want but never the book i actually came to buy
>everyone who works there is rude and unhelpful
>buy 15 books for $2
>owner's cat sits by the exit and either swipes at you with their paw as you walk past or tries to run outside

[Anonymous No.11221352]

>>11214448
Internet not worth using without Facebook? Ok...

[Anonymous No.11221358]

>>11212873
These are fronts for shuffling around illicitly obtained money.
Think about the rent.
Think about the upkeep.
Think about how much any other business could make at the same location.

They fix the books so they make it look like they're selling some esoteric poetry for tens of thousands per month.
The truth of the matter is, often the owners are involved with cannabis or prostitution.

They know they can't just blow that on Mercedes without tax man coming by so they just start it up.
Go in and ask how does this place stay open and they look nervous.

I want to root these people out. I want to expose them. People think they're good guys because they own some quaint little shop but they aren't.
The same thing happens with modern art. Simply a means to overtly broker illicit dealings.

[Anonymous No.11221381]

>>11210148
>go to local bookstore
>niggers everywhere
>the only white person in the store other than me is the owner, who appears only as a ghost in the background, a sad, withered old man with an expression longing for sweet death
>Try to ignore the niggers jumping about the store, knocking knocks off shelves and racks while listening to their nigger rap on their nigger phones
>Push past the wildin' niggers towards the classics section, but something stops me...
>It's the niggers
>They're holding books, but... they're not reading them
>What are they doing?
>Good god, are they... are they grinding on the books?
>I finally notice that they're bending the books all the way outwards to form a crevice in the middle and are the shaking the books like they're twerking while grinding them on their groinal regions
>Hear a gunshot behind me
>Look back and the owner has shot himself
>The niggers start to close in on me
>"Wha'chu lookin' fo' whyboy?"
>"I have come for The Gay Science."
>Nigger wildin' intensifies, grinding becomes more rapid and aggressive
>"Nigga, u gay?!?!?!"
>"Only for science."
>"I show u sum science, whyboy."
>Niggers summon Yakub and perform a voodoo ritual on me that reverts me back into my original negroid form
>I suddenly no longer have any desire to read
>Start twerking and grinding on books with my now fellow niggers
>mfw I'll never know what it feels like to be a comfy white patrician

[Anonymous No.11221403]

When did you realize B&N was going out of business? For me, it's when they started selling gunpla and showcasing poorly built kits made by the employees.

[Anonymous No.11221747]

>>11221381
>*knocking books

[Anonymous No.11221799]

>>11221403
>started selling gunpla at a 200% markup
Fixed.

[Anonymous No.11222025]

>>11221381
i like this greentext but its clearly fiction. barnes and noble is a bastion of the white race. there is a force field against the blacks

[Anonymous No.11222093]

>go to local bookstore
>floor-to-ceiling packed with books
The owner did an interview with the local news when they were doing a special on "local landmarks" where he claimed to have well over 2 million books. And I can believe it.

It's one of those places where you have to dedicate a couple of hours when visiting. You get lost in its labyrinthine bookshelves.

[Anonymous No.11222099]

>>11222093
Forgot picture.

[Anonymous No.11222141]

I like my local library

[Anonymous No.11222155]

>>11222025
That was no barnes & noble, lad

[Anonymous No.11222169]

>>11222099
Kings?

[Anonymous No.11222185]

>>11222099
Front for criminal enterprise.

[Anonymous No.11222470]

>>11212864
non-burger here.
would you mind giving me a quick rundown on LA vs Boston?
I got that Boston has more bookstores but what makes you want to die about LA? (I know is has retarded traffic)

[Anonymous No.11222486]

>>11210148
>tfw eternal childhood memory of Norah Jones "Don't know why" playing on the speakers at local Borders on a Saturday while I browse for a non fic book to give to my parents to buy
feels good mane

[Anonymous No.11222496]

>>11222470
California as a whole, and southern california especially is all the negative aspects of American pop culture and consumerism x10. People there quite simply have no souls.