Barnes & Noble Booksellers

It’s no surprise that bookstores are a dying breed in our world of Amazon and other online purveyors. This hit home when I walked into Barnes & Noble and first passed through a movie & Music department (complete with vinyl!) then into what appeared to be a Collectible & Gaming department, opening up to a LARGE coffee bar/​café area. with a few shelves of books off to either side and a large children’s area in the back. That being said, I wasn’t really there for a book so it wasn’t a disappointment. I was there for a birthday card, and did some browsing. In the end browsing paid off when I found a heavily discounted sort of collectible item for my own passion. Hello Kitty. If I were indeed looking for a book, in all honesty I’d check ahead before going to the store, there is no guarantee I’d find it in the shrinking stock of tomes.

Barnes & Noble is one of our family fun & family time kinda place just because we enjoy books esp the kids. We come here to skim on books & if we like it we buy it, we usually get one each for the kids most of the time, we like to build our family library! I like that there’s a Starbucks inside & you can bring & drink coffee while reading. Aside from books, they have CD’s, videos, games, toys here! You get 15% off if you have a membership including coffee. Great place to hang out & develop the bookworm in you! I have to admit though that the prices are not so great, sometimes I see the same book & discounted much like Ross/​TJ maxx or even online! Of course this place has huge selection which can’t be beat!

This was my first trip to a Barnes and Noble and even though this place is A-​OK «The Shop Around The Corner» it is not. B and N has a good selection of media, but I wish they had more seating and options for a relaxing afternoon of reading and buying books. The checkout lines were entirely too long and at times an associate to help me find the books I was looking for was tough to locate.
All in all, this was a decent experience but I will continue to seek a more cozy, non megastore experience and vibe.

I’ve been going here for years. And while the selection isn’t always perfect, it has a nice atmosphere and plenty to browse through.

I had to wait 20 minutes in line to buy a book. They only had one cashier for the entire store, I don’t get it especially when you are in a hurry. I never thought I’d be Unilocaling a book store but this had to be posted. I hope someone takes a look at this and works on customer service.

I hope bookstores don’t die out. With Amazon monopolizing so much of book sales, it’s easy to imagine a world in which we have to go online to buy books, or at least to go to a bookstore with a large inventory. BN is the one place in Boise – and most towns – where you can still wander around and peruse a huge selection of books. I hope, beyond hope, that they stay in business. I always buy something when I come, even if just a coffee or a cookie, just to help support the place. I’d encourage others to do the same. While it’s lovely to camp and read books for free, the place won’t be around forever if we don’t pay into the system.
The employees here are friendly and helpful. If you need directions toward a book, they’ll take you to the right section. If they don’t have what you need, they’ll always be happy to order it. The prices are what you’d pay anywhere else – that’s how the whole «list price» works – and they’ve always got a massive selection of bargain books in the front.
If you need a journal or stationery, they’ve got a grade deal of different types as well. The children’s section is expansive, and they’ve recently added games and some strange figures to their selection, along with candy. While I’m not a huge fan of those products, and resent the floor space they take away from books, I can also see where they’re struggling to stay competitive in the market, and are looking for ways to keep making money. If that means a few weird bobble-​heads near the Psychology section, well, okay.
They’ve got tables and chairs on the peripheries of the store for sitting and reading, as well as a café in the center where you can have a drink or a treat and sit at a table. These aren’t standard Starbucks pastries, but Cheesecake Factory pastries, as well as grilled sandwiches, soup, and pretzels. And yes, cheesecake. Mind-​blowing, calorie-​dense, belt-​busting cheesecake that pairs really well with the latest diet book. Definitely stop there before you sit down with a stack of reading material.
BN. It’s a national chain, lacks the quaintness of an indie store, and wants to be all things to all people. But it offers so many things you can’t find elsewhere, so you can hardly hold those faults against it.

Great place to find a new book the prices are fair and the people are nice I will happily keep buying my books here.

It is super ridiculous that one of the employees here told me suddenly that the table I am using is going to moved somewhere else for some nonsense reason. First, this table has been here like forever. What’s the reason you just want to move it in a sudden? Second, I am the only one who has been using this table for the past couple days. I am not disturbing anyone here. That makes me think that you are really offended to me for just staying at this table for a long time. Isn’t it what a bookstore would allow people to do? Third, I would think it is a discrimination against customers who stay here longer and than what normal customers are. All of these do not make sense and YOU delivered a such unpleasant customer service. Obviously, there will be a bad review.

There is simply no where else in the Treasure Valley (that I am aware of) that offers the depth and breadth of selection that Barnes & Noble offers. I use online sellers quite a bit, but I always prefer to go to a brick and mortar. I’m simply impatient and enjoy, to some degree, going out and visiting a location. Now that’s not to say B&N is perfect, too many gimmicky young adult stuff being pimped and I think over all these years I’ve bought one fiction piece from here. There are too many local used book places that offer shelves of awesome. But for non-​fiction or more esoteric magazines this is the place, still the technical oriented books are spendy. 40, 50, 60 bucks in a lot of cases for computer literature though gems can be found. There is also some lag in getting tomes that cover current technologies but that is to be expected.
So yeah I’m a fan, just wish they had sales more often and concentrated less on whatever series is the currently in vogue.

Having a large, got almost everything bookstore is fantastic. I still prefer paper over electronic when selecting certain types of books. They have a large collection of Programming books for many computer languages in addition to many other subjects. The children’s section is large and has most of the recent and popular releases. I’ve had some difficulties finding books that were more than a few years old in the children’s section though. Popular novels are generally very easy to find and they have a wide selection of Language Learning books/​dictionaries with the Rosetta Stone series.
I don’t go to the café as I don’t go to the bookstore to eat or chat. Music and movies are quite expensive usually full retail, if you’re looking for movies particularly I’d suggest looking elsewhere.

You can loiter… Other than that I have nothing good to say about the place. Buy your music at the Record Exchange and books somewhere in the northend. Oh yeah and the coffee sucks.