Book Stores Still Exist. I'm Glad.
I'm a recovering book geek. I used to go to places like this and just browse and browse and buy more books than I could ever possibly read in a year. There just weren't enough hours in the day or days in the week to read everything I wanted. But with online buying so convenient I hadn't bought a book from a brick and mortar book store in I don't know how long.
I was in the area, and I had a few hours to kill and nothing to do. i saw this place. It's big. It's very big, and they have a wide variety of genres from romance novels to DIY to travel to music Dvds and everything in between. It's big enough that each section has a lot to choose from.
That was important to me because I had been looking for a good book that teaches Brazilian Portuguese. I didn't want to just buy something online that I didn't get a chance to flip through first. This place has a decent sized foreign language section, and I'll be doggoned if they didn't have exactly what I was looking for. I got a beginning level language book with CD and a workbook with its own CD. My high level of integrity forces me to say that the book was very expensive compared to what I could get from Amazon, and I'm not talking about the used marked up books with mystery stains on them. I'm talking about a new book from Amazon would cost about 40% less. But I think it's cheesy to go into a bookstore and browse their wide selection and then buy it on the cheap so I don't mind that I paid a little more.
I could spend an afternoon in a place like this.