Peter Wrote:Maggers, for Gods sake woman, you have to climb a flight of stairs to get to books? I live in a small Devon village and I have to drive for two hours (Oh, alright I have a Lancia Turbo and its an hour and a half if no one is looking) to get to a halfway (and thats ALL it is) bookshop! Hah! Americans, you have no idea.....
Sort of only joking, and I actually have two Lancia turbos (and I love them like the mistress I never had!) but really, a flight of stairs?
Damn straight a f***ing flight of stairs. I stop at that B&N between the subway and the cross town bus I take home. I want to browse QUICKLY and get out of the G-D store. OK! I don't have time to get to the second floor, which, BTW, is serviced by an escalator. Yes, the height of laziness, but my time is money and I don't like what that B&N has done with their first floor, which used to be book heaven for me.
So screw them and anyone who has a problem with how I choose to spend my time and money. I'll give my hard earned dollars to a store that provides me what I want.
B&N took the cheaper and more popular pocket books and put them out of the reach, quite literally, of those of us on the run. The first floor now consists of travel books and trade paperbacks. Keep in mind that New Yorkers commute on foot, trekking on buses and subways. We carry briefcases, packbacks and handbags into which pocketbooks fit best. Trade paperbacks don't and they are more expensive. That's my major beef.