Barnes and Noble

This place is a book lover’s dream. Right when you walk in the front entrance, to the right side, there is a huge section of magazines. You can find a huge section on Manga, if you’re into that, right next to the café area. The children’s area is on the second floor.
There are two floors in the building. First floor has a Starbucks café in the back with some round tables and chairs perfect for casual conversations over coffee or catching up on a good book. Buying new is a bit pricey. I have bought books here, but only when they’re on sale and the cost is about the same as if I bought a gently used book from Amazon. Plus, you’re saving trees.
The employees here are always super friendly and helpful. In the past, I didn’t know where a section of books were and one of the employees graciously guided me to what I was looking for.

This is my favorite Barnes and Noble location.
The wifi is free and pretty quick for public wifi. Somehow I also rarely have trouble finding a seat at the café here. The location makes it great for bookworms who get dragged to the mall by their shopping-​loving family members, so everybody stays happy. After the shoppers are done with the rest of the mall, everyone can meet up at one of the many restaurants within walking distance at Southpoint or you can caravan to another nearby place.
The selection here is good. Obviously it can’t be as good as online, but they do a good job populating the shelves with the interesting titles. They occasionally have pretty good books on sale.
This place also has events like storytime for kids but doesn’t do a good job advertising them. Pick up a flyer at the front just before you go through the second set of front doors.

This Barnes and Noble location is one of my favorite in the Triangle. It is a two story location with the top story having a few chair in which you can just sit and read or study. Please note there are only four chairs so they are often now available.
Like most Barnes and Noble bookstores you will be able to find most books here but they can be rather pricey. If you are looking for cheaper books there are a few used bookstores in the area.
Something nice about this location is the fact that it stays open until 11 pm on Friday and Saturday night. It is also a good place to waste some time before a movie at the AMC Theatre.

I love this Barnes & Noble! I’m really starting to feel like bookstores are a lost art in this day and age, so I love just strolling through B&N when I’m at the mall, and seeing what new books are out. I love that there are two floors of books! It’s makes reading and books seem much more important — as they should be!
I also love their collection of board games! My husband and I love board games and we love getting them at B&N because they always seem to have new ones, and we have bought about 4 over the last few years.
The Starbucks inside is handy, and the kids section is great for introducing kids to reading. B&N at Southpoint is great and I hope it will stay for years to come!

As with most B&N stores, it’s about what one expects and it is what it is — a B&N Bookstore. Books galore, chairs to sit down and lounge so you can browse your selections and so on. There’s a café’ in the back and more reading selections upstairs. Not as nice as the Triangle TC location, but nicer than the Crabtree location.

I love this Barnes and Nobles. It is of course huge, just like any other Barnes and Nobles. But this one I feel has more of those over sized chairs scattered through out the store that allows for lounging and free book/​magazine flipping. It’s in a great location (Southpoint mall) and it’s got some fun displays (yes, I’m a die hard Twilighter).
My only gripe is that the travel section was smaller than I’ve seen at other Barnes and Nobles.

Full bookstore with Café and all the typical perks of a high-​end store.
They sell the Nook and Nook Color e-​book readers here which I think are the best out there, esp for the money. They build on Google’s Android platform and are thus far more flexible. For geeks you can «root» them and you basically have the most inexpensive Android Table on the market.
The newest Nook is all touch screen with the «E-​Ink» screen that gives absolutely crisp text in grayscale. They first tend to release WiFi only ones, but add 3G to later ones. The 3G costs a bit more, but the price includes lifetime 3G not monthly or yearly and no contracts. However the 3G only works for downloading books, not Internet.
The store is nice, staff are friendly, helpful and knowledgeable. Great choice of other items as well. I like how these kinds of book stores provide seating where you can just chill out and look though stuff before you buy.

Barnes and Nobles are Barnes and Nobles. They have lots of books, large amounts of Twilight crap, some Legos, magazines, and a Starbucks. This one is also two levels, and in the «Streets» part of the Streets of Southpoint, so those things are fun.

Freestanding B&N at Southpoint Mall. Café, train table, friendly staff.