Barnes & Noble

Turn up at B&N!
JK (maybe…)
Great selection of books, cards, toys, and café goodies (let’s not even get into the prices lol). The employees, for the most part, are pretty nice here and always happy to help with whatever you need.
As far as coming here for work or reading some cool books goes, the overall experience of doing either things here has worsened throughout the years. Here are some reasons:
(1) There used to be a lot more sitting space upstairs with 2 full desks on each side — near outlets too! They seemed to have reduced that to one desk per side with a few smaller, random tables here and there, but without access to outlets :(. (Outlets are our friends!)
(2) So much noise! On either floor, there never seems to be much quiet. Now, I realize this is a book store and not a library. However, I still feel like whether you’re silently doing work upstairs or grabbing some cup o’ joe downstairs, there’s always a plethora of noise that puts a damper on your experience.
(3) Tables downstairs even have started to get smaller — not kidding!
(4) Wi-​fi can be occasionally shoddy (I know it’s complimentary, but just sayin’!).
(5) They used to be open until 11pm on weekends, but now close at 10pm :(. I know that’s not that much of a difference, but sometimes it helps to have the extra hour when you got your late-​night study sesh going on!
All those complaints aside (sorry for the list!), this B&N isn’t so bad. It definitely stands big&tall at Main Street so definitely pop inside at least once!

I love getting a cup o’joe and setting up camp in the café area to do some work. It’s a nice change of environment from the library.

The people in the kids’ department are extremely knowledgeable! You can tell that they really read the books that they books they recommend. A woman helped me choose books for my daughter in the teen section and she was able to not only make many recommendations, she was able to tell me what each of the books was about!

This store has gotten worse and worse over the years. They have a crappy music section and the magazines are ALWAYS a mess and not properly stocked with the latest issues. get frustrated every time I come here. This is not an organized store.

Great kids area with storytimes and a Chuggington Train Table play area. Outside the kids area (in gifts and games) there is a small lego table for the kids to play at. Great bookstore for sure!