Barnes & Noble

Excellent service! Great selection of magazines. And my favorite coffee spot in the Valley

Spent a very pleasant hour there today, browsing, looking for a gift, having a coffee and people watching. PLenty of bargain bins to sort through looking for treasures. Nice music section too at the back of the store.
We interacted with three employees — a woman at the information desk, our cashier, and the server at the coffee shop — all were very friendly and helpful. We saw a ton of people in the coffee shop taking advantage of the free wifi.

This B&N is small and when I went in last night around 8:00 p.m., I literally tapped my foot at the register waiting for an employee to ring me out for a good three minutes while her boss ordered her around stacking books 15 feet away from me.
To be fair, I know that B&N has the WORST BUSINESS MODEL IN THE WORLD — let’s let everyone browse and read out merchandise for free inside our store and let them walk out empty handed so that they can buy it on eBay or Amazon later for half price, treating BN as if it were a public library — but this was atrocious service. When the manager is more concerned about making the display look the way the guide shows than she is about ringing sales, there is a problem.
This is more of a general B&N gripe than any indictment on this particular location, but should you really trust a store full of paperback and hardcover books that has now completely in invested itself in an e-​book device? It’s like saying, «Look, we know you like books. That’s why you come here. We like books too. More importantly, we like profit, and if this whole ‘book’ thing goes south, we want to make sure that we extract every possible dollar out of you for a device that we won’t be able to support, upgrade or offer any assistance with after we file for bankruptcy and sell our assets just like our brother Borders.»
A bookstore that wants to turn books into loss leaders to sell gadgets and lattes is not a bookstore for me.

Superior B&N in the area. Clean, quiet, and well organized. You can always get some reading done on a Nook or work on a computer with minimal disruption here.

Love Barnes & Noble! They have a great children’s section, the café is good, and I love the way they support local organizations. My daughter’s school has had several «Barnes & Noble Night» events … the teachers read a story … they do a craft, and get a snack, and it doesn’t cost the school anything!!! I love how I can shop at
and then get an email to come pick my order up in the store. Staff is friendly and helpful. I could spend all day here!

i always like B&N. this store is on the newer side, so it’s clean and pretty well organized. Café is good too here. it’s a medium size store, not too big or too small. book staff has always been helpful when i needed them.

Clean store, nice selection, medium sized seating area in the café. Kids area is nicely stocked, makes for a decent stop for all your book needs. Or if you just want to kill some time.