Just wish I could be there too, if only to see you two fight about the stairs! Sorry Maggers, you know I love you but, well, stairs? Still cant quite get my head round that one....

"Fight about the stairs"...somehow, Peter, I'm envisioning an Errol Flynn movie. Or maybe Zorro, with wonderful Maggers as the masked heroine and me hapless self as Sergeant Garcia...

The B&N's near me, don't have stairs.....

I believe the issue was TIME, not STAIRS.

You are correct, Jim. Time is very important when you're visiting the finest bookstore on the planet. After all, why waste precious time dawdling over volumes you might not otherwise have ever seen? Let's get our priorities together! Let the bibliophiles wander...we've got a mission to carry out!

Just wish I could be there too, if only to see you two fight about the stairs! Sorry Maggers, you know I love you but, well, stairs? Still cant quite get my head round that one....

If you haven't understood my point after all I've written, then you're not going to get it now.

It's the fact that they've taken away the cheaper, mass market paperbacks and moved them to a less accessible place. They've replaced them with higher priced, larger sized (trade paperback) books, and none of the authors I like to read regularly print in trade paperbacks. Implicit in such a revamping of the all important first floor of a store is the message that they don't want to cater to a mass market. They want the more elite reader.

So again I say, screw them and anyone else who has a problem with how I spend my time and money. Wrap you head around that.

I'm not losing anything. There are dozens of other B&N's in NYC and there's always the cheaper and more convenient amazon.com.

If you haven't understood my point after all I've written, then you're not going to get it now.

It's the fact that they've taken away the cheaper, mass market paperbacks and moved them to a less accessible place. They've replaced them with higher priced, larger sized (trade paperback) books, and none of the authors I like to read regularly print in trade paperbacks. Implicit in such a revamping of the all important first floor of a store is the message that they don't want to cater to a mass market. They want the more elite reader.

So again I say, screw them and anyone else who has a problem with how I spend my time and money. Wrap you head around that.

I'm not losing anything. There are dozens of other B&N's in NYC and there's always the cheaper and more convenient amazon.com.

For the love of Christ, Maggers, lighten up! Or shall I sell your already-reserved front row seat to the unnamed superstar who's already offered me a sweet $1000? (And I'm sure he'll go =much= higher. Hee-hee!)

The B&N's near me, don't have stairs.....

Stores in cities other than NY can spread out. In New York City you can only go up.

For the love of Christ, Maggers, lighten up!

Nope. Not interested.

Nope. Not interested.

You're not interested in the love of Christ?

You're not interested in the love of Christ?

You used "for the love of Christ" as an expletive.

"Lighten up" was the directive, and that is to what I responded.

What's between me and my god, whomever that may be, is...well...between us.

You used "for the love of Christ" as an expletive.

"Lighten up" was the directive, and that is to what I responded.

What's between me and my god, whomever that may be, is...well...between us.

"For the love of Christ" was used an intensifier. "Lighten up" was a suggestion.