My barnes and nobels doesn't have any chairs TT^TT so I buy all of my books. I prefer going to the library though, my library is branched to about 20 other libraries in the area, so I have a large selection.

I sit on the floor when no chairs to read cause im poor XD

Personally, I like to buy the books. I know they can be a little expensive, but I really enjoy being able to read them anywhere at any time, and reread them if I like without having to leave home. I can see the perks of reading in a bookstore though, some of them can be really nice and have great lounges and coffee shops :wink:

I do the same thing, although I am told by my family that that is frowned upon by the bookstore. Usually I go and start reading a book and then leave. If I find I can't stop thinking about how it ends the next day then I try to find a cheaper version. Or sometimes if it's really bad then I go back and buy at full price.

If I have the money, I just buy the book I'm looking at, because I'm a rather slow reader and I also don't like the feeling of a public place for reading xD I like my own comfy room :3

However xD;; I don't usually have money, so I've been rereading books I already have >.>;

i buy them in comic stores. i now weerd but i barly read books these dais. jutst manga *books*
sometime from sites. if its stuf thats hard to find
i'm hoping for a new artimes fowl book. and that i would bye at a book store

The only time I ever do that is if I wish to partake in various first volumes of manga to see which series I would like. Plus at Border's they now have 50 cent refills now that Seattle's Best Coffee is replacing their old cafes. So by the 6th large cup of coffee I'm tripping of caffine and first volumes of manga. XD

Plus usally I plan on buying something I've read before I leave.

So really as long as your not reading whole series of books then its ok. It just makes you look cheap. XD

edit: Also if the bookstores frowned upon reading it in the cafe I'm pretty sure they would enforce it.

My only gripe that I just realized is that if your going to read a book in the cafe without intending to buy it....for god sakes just put the book back. I see the people at the cafe in Border's go around collecting the books people left behind and I just realized how god awfully annoying it must be for them.

My sister and I love to go to Barnes and Nobles or Borders and read the manga books.
My sister has a small collection of mangas. My fiance and I are going to start our own collection once we live together and save up some money for the books.
I want to buy the mangas I love, but do not normally have the money for them. They will be the first ones I get when I do get enough money.
I put titles of books and the authors on my Christmas wishlist when my grandma asks what I want. She has given me a lot of the books I have been wanting including Eragon, Eldest, and Dragonspell.

If I had an unlimited amount of money, I would buy all the books that I like and all the books that sound interesting. ^_^

I like to take the book home, so that I can add it to my pile of books. I like to collect them. Then, when I have enough books, I could make a library. Plus, between family and work, I don't really have the time to be hanging out in book stores.

I love just sitting in the bookstore and reading. I usually do it if I don't have a specific book I want to buy or if I have extra time on my hands. Then I usually only buy it if I want to use it as a reference or want to read it over and over again.

i prefer buying my books. ya its comfortable to go and sit there in the store reading but its way more comfy in my home curled up in my bed.

But one of the main reasons why i think just sitting reading them in the store is bad cuz if you dont buy it then it shows dont really care or apperiacte what the author has done.
Authors write books so we can enjoy tem in our homes and with loved ones, of we just read it in the sotre we are not doing that.

Not only that i always think if everyone just read the books and never bought them we would lose authors beasue they wouldnt feel apperiactd it.

a library is diffrent to me though, thats a whole nother plane for me hah XD

but thats my opinin.. i buy the book instead.

If it's a novel, I buy it. Manga, I read in the store. (Unless its Fushigi Yugi, and then I buy it :D Guilty pleasure haha) It only takes me a few minutes to read a manga, so I figure that it's not worth it to buy it (again, unless its Fushigi Yugi, in which case I read it over and over ad nauseum.).

All of my friends read the books in the store, though. Or they borrow them from me. Either way, they don't spend as much as I do. :oops:

• I refuse to read manga anywhere other than on the internet, and whenever I'm at the bookstore it's with a friend and I'd hate to tie them up. Besides, it'd take too long to finish an entire book.
  
  I'd rather just buy it. I like reading in bed when I can't sleep, otherwise it sits there for a few weeks untouched.

I prefer to buy books, but sometimes that's not possible, and anyway, there are some I'd rather look at briefly than buy. Others I want in my hands so I can just smell the paper. I love books.

It's just so much more... SATISFYING to have an actual copy of the book XDD;
Besides, it's kind of weird when people walk by you and I always feel like they're giving me this side glance that says "cheapass." Heh n__n;; And it's more comfortable to lie in bed reading rather than sitting in a bookstore.

I like to refer back to books for drawing, so I like to buy them.
I do like to sit in the manga isle at my local borders, though...

I like to buy my books rather than sit and read, I cant concentrate if I'm in a store. Plus its hard to find a comfy place to sit, and i get hungry when I read. i like to take home the book and read it there, then later read it again. :)

my thoughts on this are pretty blunt; it's a bookSTORE not a library.

it's essentially stealing if you read an entire book in a bookstore without buying it. scanning and reading a little bit are very different, but reading the whole thing... NO. the bookstore owns the books until you buy them, they have them on display with the intent that people buy them. if you read without ever intending to buy you're getting free use and causing wear to those products they intend to sell as new/unused. that's theft.

a library puts out books they own so you can borrow them free of charge. if you want to read without buying then use a library. don't say you can't get it from your library as an excuse, libraries can borrow stuff from other libraries for you so what they have oftentimes doesn't matter. just ask a librarian about InterLibrary Loans and you may be STUNNED by the amount of material you can get your hands on.

I worked at Borders I personally hate it when people sit in the store and read.
One it breaks down the spin of the book and makes it impossible to sell.
It takes money away from the Companies....especially the manga companies.
You have to understand that already a few companies have had to stop writting new mangas because of the fact that very few people actually buy them anymore??
It makes me sick to see the way some of the people treat the books also.
I mean there are a few customers who sit there and read all the time but once the put the book back you can't even tell that they have been reading it or that the book was even open.
On top of all that the majority of the people that read them in the store never put them back. This drives all the sellers up a wall because hey guess what at the end of the day they have to put all of those books away.
So if you are going to do this please please please! Treat them great and put them back when you are done with them.
*sighs*

Elemental is VERY right. I may not have worked in a bookstore (except seasonally one holiday season at a calender kiosk run by one) but as a frequent manga buyer and a good friend of several people who worked at one of the bookstores in my area that recently went out of business (they competed with B&N by offering the largest manga selection in town, when people started reading in store without buying more than buying they went under) I can say what she said is true.

I've had the people at the bookstore that went under set aside manga they thought I'd like just so I wouldn't have had to buy something that had been read multiple times and I've seen stuff there and at B&N read so many times I could get something of better condition at one of the local used bookstores.

you CAN'T read an entire book without causing wear and damage to the spine. even if you're careful it will happen, even if you're careful accidents can happen. and is it so hard to understand a bookSTORE isn't a library?

@Elemental
Yeah it only takes the majority of idiots to ruin it for the rest of us who are just careful with the books, and put them back when we are done with them.

Why do I do it you ask? Well because Border's has 50 cent refills on coffee. Thats why. I read alitle manga, buy one or two books when I'm about to leave, and put away what I don't read.

Also whatever happend to the old rule of if you broke it you bought it?

And yes it dose annoys me to have to see the people at the cafe collect the books left around the tables. :(

So I feel for you elemental.

I rather enjoy buying the books I want, to be honest. It makes it more exciting, and I have difficulty focusing on reading when there's hustle and bustle all around. :)

I'm such a bookworm, I'd end up buying it regardless, I think.

People actually leave the books at the table? D: Oh come on, if they can make the walk out the door, can't they drop the books off on the shelf on the way out at least?

@Rutares: I know what ou mean! =O I'll read in a bookstore if I don't have enough money with me, but I always prefer buying them. It gives me a certain pleasure. *pleasant shivers* X3

@Kyuuki: Thank you very much!
The worse thing I had ever seen was a customer at the store had taken a bunch of really exspensive books into the cafe and sat down to read them only to knock over a large coffee right on to the books and she brings them up to us and says sorry and leaves theme right there and walks away...doesnt offer to pay just walks off.
I was so mad that my friend had to place his hand over my mouth to keep me from yelling at her as she walked away.

@AzureWolf: I understand that manga is really exspensive believe me I am a college student and cant always afford to get the manga that I want when I want it. Even when I got my lovely discount while working there.
And I know of a few who come in and really carefully read them and treat them with respect and I have no problem those people ^^
A lot of them are my friends.
^^

dear gods... I can't believe someone would do something like that! even if I had little to no money on me if I did something like that browsing a book I'd at the very least ask them to put them aside for me to buy when I get money and offer my contact information. people just don't respect books like they should anymore. *shakes head*


I'd also like to point out manga isn't really expensive. expensive was back when I first read some (sneaking into my older brother's room to get to the comics he had in there). back then it wasn't uncommon for 1 volume to cost over $20, sometimes even $30 or more. I leaped for joy when manga went down to only $15 a volume because I could actually buy some for myself when I managed to spot some. right now with manga with MSRPs as low as $8 that makes it cheaper than most trade paperback novels. it's more affordable than ever.