I like to buy the book, then read the book in the store. > > And if I can read the book in the aisle where I found it, all the better! Blocking the traversing people is the reason I live! <3

For books I'll more commonly buy them since the books I read often tend to be in the 400-600 page range. I also like to read them in a certain part of my house. I'll often borrow books from the local library that way I don't have to pay. I reread books a lot so it is beneficial if I own the book or I have a couple of weeks to read it. Manga I will read in the bookstore since it is most likely that I would read it once and then never really again.

I always buy books and manga from the bookstore but I have been known to quite often read a magazine and then put it back at Borders. I hate to spend a ton on magazines when I only want to read one or two articles.

I'll spend hours in the book store reading manga or novels, though novels I usually read more at the library because they have comfier chairs and I can take it home free for the small price of remembering to bring it back.

The way I figure it, my Dad spends hundreds of dollars buying computer books, so I'm not cheating the bookstore out of a profit, and when I find a series I love, I buy the whole thing (volume by volume.. I'm not made of money <.<; ) so I support the author too. I do feel a little guilty for not buying more of them just because it's so hard to get into the graphic novel industry for the exact reasons we're all talking about - reading not buying. Then again, alot of it is available online for free if you look hard enough too, so if you go to the bookstore they atleast have a chance of being bought, or of you buying impulse items/drinks/food.

It's a fine line between stealing the book and stealing it's content with your mine, neh? xD

I use to work in a book store, so I would sit for hours on end just reading books. I figured I spent most of my free time there anyway,I didn't see the point of buying the books. But I ended up buying some anyway since I would get a big discount.

A lot of the times, the books I need to buy
are often too long to read in-store.

So I buy them. To save time.

i love the atmosphere and i feel comfortable reading in the bookstores, but if i read it and i love it- i want it. i've not eaten for days at a time in able to afford my book supply. The one thing is i also read manga and that i don't really like people reading in the store- cause usually its some kid with like a pile. It bothers me when other people hoard books when they aren't gonna buy them- that's what a library is for. Also bugs me when someone messes a book up with their yucky sticky fingers or coffee. (sry that was kinda a rant)
So yeah i love the atmosphere and would read in a store but i would buy the book probably anyway

I am really fond of buying books, and I tend to buy a lot of them that I never read. At least I have all different sorts of books for whenever the mood to read strikes me.

Of course, I have actually been reading a lot lately. I just finished off a novel series the other day, but now I'm turning to manga for a while to have something lighter to read. I felt rather drained after the last book in the series I was reading occurring during the tragedy of World War I.

I have so many things I want to be reading right now, I wish that I could read all of them at once. By the time I get through the manga, though, the reading mood will probably be past. *sigh*

In somewhere like Borders, Waterstones or other big book shops I generally know what I'm looking for so I just go in and out.

I can spend hours just browsing and looking at books at second hand book shops though so I don't know how people find the time to finish them!

i buy them.
i would love to sit in the bookstore and read them butmy grandma is usually the one to take me to the bookstore.
and she ends up wanting to leave.

I buy the books on sale <3

I work at a bookstore, so it makes things a bit easier for me.

I read a volume of manga on my break at work since it doesn't take me more than a half hour and my breaks there are for a full hour. Then, whatever I want to actually read that are full books, I'll borrow from the store and read at home. I don't need to read them in the store since I can borrow them out for a couple weeks to read on my own. It's always better that way. =)

I buy them, I'd feel kind of bad if I read the whole book or manga without buying it, like I'm ripping the author off. The Borders here is always >>; extremely warm anyway, so if I'm in there for hours I start to feel really sick and worn out.

If I really really love the book then I'll buy it. But more often than not I'd rather just borrow it from a library, because you can take it with you and take your time to read it unlike sitting in the Barnes and Nobles.

That is only good it you have the time and are a fast reader! Heh.

Plus, I usually do not read a book more than once. Even a good book, since I've already read it, I'd rather take my time and put it to good use finding a new story I have never heard before. Then I'll read that one!

Both and library.

lol I want to have it all, baby. I like to sit and catch up on series that I probably won't buy... but often while doing that, I'll find something I love and then buy it anyway. How many paychecks have gone down the tubes that way? *sigh*

I don't have enough shelves for all the books I own. And then, of course, I still bring home more stuff and have to stack it on the floor or sleep next to it on the bed... and I can't BEAR to get rid of them.

Yomiko Readman? Yeah, it's getting that way.

I only buy if I find myself reading it more than once, or if it's for school. I've only bought a few books, and I've found myself returning to them over and over again (like The Prize Winner of Defiance, Ohio and To Kill a Mockingbird).

Most of the time, I go into a bookstore and sit there and read. xD; I feel guilty sometimes, but... eh. Everyone's doing it, and Borders doesn't seem to mind. So it's all good.

As for manga, I only buy if I intend to collect it... such as Shinshi Doumei Cross. xD;

I sit there for a little while reading it knowing that I'm just going to buy it. My manga collection is so huge that I think I'm going to have to buy another book shelf. me and my hubbies bookshelf is full to the gills and I really don't want to get rid of any of them. I've already gotten rid of a few but..not my manga.

I wonder if it's a cultural thing, I would never even consider sitting in a book shop reading a book I hadn't purchased. The first chapter, maybe, to make sure I didn't completely hate the writing style, but...it's just not done XD I mean, I'm funny about books anway. It's passed the point I can use a library since I end up going out and buying everything I read at the library anyway, so I'd buy the book as standard, but if I saw someone sitting in a book shop and reading and entire book I'd feel like they were ripping of the shop, the publisher, the author. I guess that's becsaue I've never seen anyone do it, though. Do they encourage this for you lot? I mean, I completely understand it then...but...yeah.

A chapter, sure, nothing more then that though. It should be noted that, so far, the only piece of furnature I've even had to buy for myself is a book shelf.

Well that really depends for me because if its a short one like a Manga or a comic ill read it in the store but if its a longer one then I buy them and take them home.

I kind of do both. I buy a nice book that I want to read, then read it in the bookstore. OR, I read the book first, then buy it. I'm lucky half the time, since I always buy a book I actually end up reading over and over again since they're so good.

I've only boght one horrible book before. That was when I was in fourth grade.

It depends on the price of the book and whether or not I have anything else to do that day. I won't buy things like Mangas, but a good book I may want to read or share with friends, that I'll buy.

I would love to sit in the bookstore to read
some of the books they have. But, I would be
worry about the people who work there, would
come up to me and shoo me away, or tell me
that I would have to buy the book. xD

If I had the money, I would probably buy the
books, because I always wanted to have a
library of my own. (^^) Currently, I have a
mini library--hoping to expand it in the future.

Lol. I so do the same thing.
We have a book store where I live
and its verry nice and quiet and
Im a verry fast reader so instead
of buying it I seat in on of the chairs
and read untill my hearts content. The good thing is that there is also a coffee shop in it so I can grab a drink, read and relax. But when the book is to long I usually just buy it but if its just a manga count on me just to read it there. ;)

Originally Posted by DarkMelancholy

I would love to sit in the bookstore to read
some of the books they have. But, I would be
worry about the people who work there, would
come up to me and shoo me away, or tell me
that I would have to buy the book. xD

If I had the money, I would probably buy the
books, because I always wanted to have a
library of my own. (^^) Currently, I have a
mini library--hoping to expand it in the future.

Oh, I don't worry about that anymore. I'm pretty sure the workers at all the local bookstores know me, and know that I don't buy everything I read there. The point is that I do buy a lot of books; I just read at least three times as many. I only do this at large chain stores. If Barnes and Noble doesn't want us reading their books, they shouldn't have comfier chairs than the library. In fact, they set out those chairs to lure us in, hoping we'll engross ourselves in a book and have to buy it because we can't finish it before we have to leave.

I would have to say buying them hands down it just seems weird to sit in the store and read them,plus with all those people watching.I would have to say the best way is the library.Yes the sweet sweet library whear books are always free to barrow.I think getting the info of the book in your brain is the important thing not how you get the info.