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As much as I like Amazon, I still end up going back to B&N and Borders. It's really hard to replicate the feeling of browsing through a bookshelf of new books o
by yan 17y ago
As much as I like Amazon, I still end up going back to B&N and Borders. It's really hard to replicate the feeling of browsing through a bookshelf of new books on a topic that interests you and flipping through some of them. Even though the Borders recent web interface facelift try to come closer to this, anything on a monitor is just not the same.
- edw519 17y agoAlso, if you're going out anyway for coffee and dessert, you might as well do it somewhere where you can put a few books on the table.
- scott_s 17y agoThat's my feeling, but after not finding the books I want for several months of casually going to stores, I just ordered them on Amazon.
- ChaitanyaSai 17y agoKindle now offers sample chapters from (some/most?) books. I find that really useful