Barnes & Noble Booksellers

It is a big bookstore in a world where there are fewer and fewer of those. And that’s a good thing. There’s a cozy café, too. My elderly in-​laws thought it would be the perfect place to shop and have a cup of tea while I saw my dentist a few blocks away. They enjoyed themselves, and when I returned to pick them up my father-​in-​law, who was in a wheelchair, asked to use the restroom. The staff directed us to the back of the store where we found that the accessible stall was out of order. There were paper towels strewn around the floor and a mop leaning against the wall. I’ve seen cleaner rest rooms at rest stops on I-​5. I mentioned it to an employee and he apologized and said that a plumber would come the next day to fix the toilet but did not explain the overall messiness of the place. So my advice is to patronize the store and the café but use the Lloyd Center restrooms up one floor.

Great location they have a nice café very friendly and helpful staff any time I’ve gone shopping there had nothing but positive experiences I highly recommend and will return

I haven’t been to a bookstore in a while, but I wasn’t thrilled with this place. The store is very large, but for the subject I was looking for there was less than a dozen titles, and none that suited my needs.
The subject was also hard to find, not near similar topics. But you know how it is when you are looking for something; it’s always in the last place you look (could be because you stop looking once you find it.)
The store was cleaned and well staffed, but no one offered to help me. Not even the employee that I tripped over because he had one leg stretched out behind him as he faced the shelf.
I probably wont be back.

This B&N is a good size, with a well-​laid out — eh, layout. When you walk in, the magazines are to the left and the café is straight ahead. To the immediate right is the checkout counter and the rest of the store is everything else.
The sections are clearly marked and sorted by general topic or type of book. They have everything from fiction, fantasy, romance, biography, classics, etc. They have a cool selection of books on local things like Oregon trails, pet friendly travel in Oregon, and much more.
What’s cool is they have a whole section on American History (AHEM, to the guy who said there are 0 books on WW1), and history in general including many books on WW1.
Another feature of this B&N is that there is a HUGE kiddies section at the end of the store. Here, kids will be able to find just about any book they are looking for.
The café section is large, and many people use the sitting area to sip something tasty while reading enthralling and entertaining stories. They have free WiFI (in addition to the WiFi offered by the Lloyd Center Mall), and you just have to accept the terms of use and voila, you’re online.
I would go back to this B&N, as it offers a nice place to take a break from a long day of shopping.

I love the discounts I get with my Barnes and Noble membership. This is a good place to come with the kids to pass the time on a rainy day.

So Barnes and Noble has a 14 day return policy? Never coming here again. A great lesson in why to support my neighborhood bookstore instead.

I like this book store because it is the biggest Barnes & Noble in Portland. The coffee is excellent too and they have a nice big selection of DVD’s and books. I like to grab a coffee and sit down and get lost in book. The environment is quite and relaxing.

I get a gift card for here every Christmas from my Dad (so does my husband). My Dad likes to get his gifts at the grocery store.
We tend to buy music since we try and buy are books at Powels. We do like that we can preview the music with the system they have here. Well this year things were different. The music had to be almost a year old to be on their system. We really wanted to listen to some new music and couldn’t. Last year we were able to listen to new music.

This review is for the Starbucks inside BN. Absolutely the most horrific, apathetic service I’ve ever dealt with from a Starbucks, where at any other location the employees are cheerful and polite. Greeted the girl behind the counter (brunette) and asked her how she was, paid for my food/​drink and rather than say thank you, or tell me my coffee & food would be ready shortly, she asked me if I needed a receipt and when I said no, she simply turned around and walked into the back. I was dumbfounded. Didn’t know when I’d be getting my food, but saw another girl getting my drink prepared (faded blond dye job). She called out my drink name (there was no one else waiting or nearby) and when I said thank you as she put it on the counter, she just turned around and started doing something else, like I was invisible. I waited and waited for my food, and she finally blurted ‘are you waiting for something’ and I explained what it was and she asked the girl who’d taken my order several times about my food and the original girl snapped at her sarcastically that she took my order (no one told me if it was being heated, what the deal was, nothing). Finally, several minutes later (10 minutes at a Starbucks waiting for food as the only person there? wtf?) a third girl (blue/​green hair) called out my food item, tossed it on the counter, and with my THIRD thank you, still ignored me and went to work. Really? Can’t be bothered to say thank you to customers or show the least bit of courtesy? They were all such a-​holes to me that I will never go in there again. Starbucks should fire all three of them and start from scratch. Pathetic.

It is an enormous book store. If there is a title you are looking for, you will probably find it here; if not, they will order it for you.
I enjoy the low-​pressure way of selling here.

don’t know why. but I like it here. We haven’t been into a B&N in a long time but finally went into this one Sunday afternoon. The place somehow feels «hip“per than other locations. When we walked in, they were playing Japanese (music) CD in the background and I was kinda surprised. Lots of Lego and lego books in there, though (and, yes, other toys too). The kiddie was more interested in them than the kiddie books.

Review of Starbucks in there + the bookstore
Starbucks,
I am reviewing on here to prevent confusion, since there is another one in lloyd center, this one is inside Barnes and Nobles.
I like this one, in the sense, that they have ice water out that was really COLD.
The workers were like any other as with service, except I was surprised that in this one, the workers looked different. Piercings and dyed green hair.
The bookstore
I thinks it’s a very cute and well organized place. Around the childrens area, there are benches that have signs that say event around them, so maybe story telling?

The workers at the café are on top of it! I work in Lloyd Center and I always go here when I need coffee or a quick snack. I never have to wait more than a few minutes on my drink and they are always willing to strike up a conversation with you. Chelsea is awesome and I love it when she is making the drinks because she never pours dead espresso shots and is awesome in getting me everything I need at a fast pace.

I find myself here to grab coffee from the café sometimes because it is close to work. The coffee is hit or miss, so I really wouldn’t go out of my way to get it. But, it does in a pinch.

OK. I’m just going to admit it: I used to live in the burbs.
It’s awful, I KNOW! I’m so, so sorry for my lack of coolness! I am!!! Whew. Now, back to my story:
When I lived in the burbs, the only thing to do was go to B&N, grab a Starbucks, and chill in a big puffy green chair for hours on end. And it’s true, no one would bug you there. It was pretty quiet in the back. You could loiter until a bit after closing, get a ton of work done, suck up the free A/​C, and no one could care less. There was a numbing kind of comfort in that.
So every once in a while, like a nasty pang for the Wonder bread of my youth, I want to loiter in a B&N for a few hours and spend a fortune staying wildly caffeinated. Is that so wrong?
The problem is that there are apparently no puffy green chairs at B&N anymore, only the hard wooden ones. The coffee’s been sitting out just a little too long, and the vapid stares of the employees when you ask about a book seem more pronounced all of a sudden.
Sigh. «Oft expectation fails» and whatever.

Always love going to Barnes and Nobles and browsing through all the aisle of great books to read, but always having a hard time of which book to buy. The staff are friendly and helpful. I love getting a cup of coffee and a pastry and relaxing with my book. I wish there was one located in Astoria so I can go there everyday.

With so many good bookstores in Portland chain stores like this to me don’t make much sense. The selection is immense, but the prices aren’t great, the atmosphere is corporate, and the service is usually so so. This location is okay, but there are bookstores that are more fun to shop in.

as far as having a good selection, yes. add a star
as far as having a great music selection, especially in portland, they are on the ball. ask Ben (the music manager) he knows truckloads about music, i think it is the only thing he knows. add a star
starbucks shitty sour coffee. DO NOT add a star.
unprofessional manager, passive aggressive much? DO NOT add a star
i have been at my job in a deli for just over a year and i make more than my friends at b and n who have been there 6 years!!! DO NOT add a star

A nicely organized Barnes & Noble. I came here to purchase a CD for a birthday present. It’s cheaper than FYE and I got an extra 10% discount even though I’m not a member. SWEEEEEEET…
I forgot to check if they had Pippi Longstocking in paperback. I missed reading story about my Pippi.
*Write on to do list, don’t forget to check Pippi at Barnes*