🙏🏼 I like that you are here and supporting bookstores- I will move your app on a screen closer than Amazon so it’s easier for me to buy from you rather than automatically reaching for the app that supports the Washington Post editorial-killing billionaire who is letting democracy die in darkness
Libraries frown if you decide to randomly keep copies, ma'am. Book stores still have a purpose for those who desire personal copies.
If they come for the Libraries, personal collections become vastly important. Fahrenheit 451 😉
Only if said small bookshops actually are safe spaces for LGBTQIA2S+ and sadly where I am, they he store does not fly a Rainbow nor have a LGBTQIA SECTION. Nir could she tell me any books or authors that are inclusive. I would gladly welcome BnN up here in Aroostook County Maine
I refuse to buy local atm! I am in Aroostook County Maine. 20 min from Presque Isle and 30 min from Caribou. 12 min from Ashland and 15 min from downtown Mapleton in a town called Castle Hill. Pop under 350
I am back in the closet. I hate it, but I am doing it for my 10yo daughter’s safety. We homeschool for her safety too! Trust me, the irony of homeschooling is not lost on me. I promise she is getting a full and rounded education!
M is learning French- we are by Quebec in northernmost Maine. She is reading HS level books. She has vetted friends all Blue! We drive hours for meetups. You do what you need in times like these!
My daughter was bullied by a teacher’s child. She was repeating what said teacher/mon was saying about me as a TransFluid person. I am weird and unsafe. M had no friends so yah, she is better off at home. We moved 8 hours away from there too and we are choosing friends carefully!
My library is surprisingly well funded. They have an entire gaming station on the teen floor with every console you can think of (excluding the new Xbox) it's comfy there and they even have a used bookstore where every book is a dollar and they keep CDs and DVDs. I get soda there mostly!
I live BnN just bought my membership again after a few years off. We have no safe LGBTQIA2S+ bookstores up in Aroostook County Maine. So you and BookOutlet are my only options to find truly diverse stories. Can you bring back e-ink. I do not want to have to buy a boox just to get eink! Orig Nook!!!
I do love bookstores, but I adore libraries.
I think of them as a sanctuary for my mind, and the librarians are the guardians.
Even the very small library in my very tiny town.
Since the rising costs of everything I've seen so many younger families and kids ar the library and now they're putting out more programs to cater to them. It's been nice to see! Lots of ASL classes, round table story times etc.
One might call you out of touch elitists. You think you're so smart with your reading and learning. Everything I learn is from Joe Rogan and Andrew Tate.
Libraries are legitimately beneficial to book stores since folks are more likely to start a series if they don't have to pay for it, and when they're hooked they're more likely to buy it rather than borrow it.
I know personally my mother was a librarian and I always like to cite this she was 6 months older than Anne Frank and she died two years ago just to put things into perspective.
👆👁️I love Libraries Kiddos there are Odd Libraries Out there Yes this Is Examples I will Post Careful though Weird things also as Said just Examples there is Others Many More👁️👇
I miss the old card catalogs. I’d spend a few days a week during summer break at the library. My sister and I would bike there and spend hours in the card catalog and searching for books. I’d do anything to have that book I checked out the most.
Libraries frown if you decide to randomly keep copies, sir. Book stores still have a purpose for those who desire personal copies.
If they come for the Libraries, personal collections become vastly important. Fahrenheit 451 😉
Nope. Nazi librarian at the Hope BC library and saw a guy overdosed in the library washroom there. Seen lowlevel HA ppl hold a meet there and fat homosexuals yelling their heads off. Libraries have gone downhill the last 5 years around here.
How about neither but in no country or religion is being an alike a death penalty crime unlike your sexual deviance. Congressman Shriver says he will make gay sex marriage illegal again it’s not even namby pamby Uganda but the spiritual warfare continues. The Bible and Koran and Book Of Mormon
all say gay sex is punishable by death. The most pro gay presidential candidate in US history just lost. And the Republicans locked Milo in a closest for the campaign.
BTW only 29% of Americans think there should be equal marriage rights and that number will keep dropping as old ideas are put to rest. Trump had one of the smallest margins of victory ever. But whatever keeps you going. 🌈🍷
Wine glass yes drunkenness and drug addiction and suicide and homelessness and incarceration and mental illness and syphillus and AIDS and monkey pox are over represented among gays compared to normals. Ppl said Roe vs Wade would never disappear but it did gay marriage will disappear like Jim Crow.
You’re certainly free to move where your single jilted opinion would be more welcome, say Uganda or Twitter. But something tells me you just want to feel SOMETHING today from SOMEONE, even negative attention. But nobody owes you anything. Need a hug, though? No gay stuff, you’re not my type.
Back when I was in school we would have scholastic book fairs... This was pure magic for me. Fast forward to today, I haven't picked up to read a book in full since then!!!
I possibly need one as an adult now 😭
Truly! It was brutal for me at the same time because we had no money. I could only get maybe one or two things. But you KNOW I cherished those couple of books or pencil toppers haha
Libraries: where the Wi-Fi connects automatically and the only algorithm is the Dewey Decimal System. It's like Netflix for books, if Netflix still made you feel intellectual.
For an odd reason, since i was an itty bitty kid, the name Dewey held a special place in my heart. First heard it as one of Donald Duck’s nephews (Huey, Dewey and Louie). Then came the Dewey Decimal Sys; it satisfied my brain’s bent for organization. Is the DDS still taught in school? Hope so!
If you like crossword and word search puzzles, my latest two puzzle books can be ordered through Barnes & Noble ~ Cannabis CrossWords & More and Food Connoisseur Crosswords & More.. A great stocking stuffer for puzzle lovers!
Especially in other countries .. Scotland has some of the oldest and most interesting ones.. Scandinavia has some of the most amazingly beautiful ones … wherever I travel I spend time in libraries 📚📖📚❤️🥂
There are so few bookstores out there, and libraries are loading up with Kindle or similar. I am worried about what libraries will look like in the near future. I have always loved my libraries and It will be a great blow if they change to something the GOP won’t support.
Do you know, I have seen doggos in 5 or 6 stores where I've been shopping just last week. Everywhere from Target to Michaels to Lululemon. They are pets, not working pups. It makes shopping so much more fun, to stop and have a chat with a pup!
I agree, but would it kill them to update their computers now and then? Takes my library computers so long to open a browser I forget what I needed it for :P
Sometimes it's just so forgetful because I remember once opening my laptop when I went to the library and reading for a while and instantly forgetting what I needed to do next!
Caveat: At Universities, and/or limited to large metropolitan cities.
More often than not, today's local library is narrow in breadth, and shallow in depth on classifications, non-fiction and fiction alike, never mind nearly devoid of resources in education materials, especially beyond K-12.
Very much like the Barnes & Noble I visited in Spokane Valley whose section on Tech pubs, applied fields, applied sciences, mathematics, etc occupied one narrow bookcase.
Then why don't I see you filing amicus briefs to help protect them from litigious digital licensing groups who are trying to drain them out of existence? Not saying it's just your dog, but let's be real. It's libraries, you, and amazon.
At some point, you have to decide what you really believe.
Agree 💯%! I ❤️ the #NYPL
Spent yesterday seeing the free Treasures, Threads & Lines, and Byron exhibits at the main #NYPL, then walked 2 blocks S to the recently/renovated Mid-Manhattan library to peruse new fictioand have tea on outdoor rooftop
On way out, signed up for the monthly book club.
In the United States, 21% of adults are illiterate, meaning they have a basic or below basic ability to read.
54% of US adults have a literacy below 6th grade level.
Education is everything.
Not really. If they don’t have a book to lend out, they refer them to a book store or online book sales. Public library budgets are always getting slashed, they don’t have every book. Or, you find a book you like so much, you end up buying it somewhere instead of checking it out all the time, too.
And bookstores ! -- *however* (...) having said that -- you really ought to reform as a *collective* of Independently owned / run local bookstores, which just happen to share most of their inventory ordering.
Stop industry consolidation in its tracks, and work to reverse it. It has gone FAR too far
My mother was a librarian and I never stop learning thanks to her 📖 I just wish the libraries were not occupied by the homeless who have nowhere else to go.
They keep jn closing them in the UK. Elderly people go there to spend a few hours reading the papers, doing anything else they wany to do and it also gives them a chance fir a bit if a warm before returning home. They can't do that in closed public buildings.
Only if they are well resourced libraries (and very few are). Otherwise a good bookshop is well clear. Could spend a month in Waterstine on Piccadilly and not get bored
As a kid & young adult, I spent a lot of time in libraries. Now...the students don't seem to need or want to do that.
Researching online may be easier/faster, but feeling a book in your hands and the scent of them is something the internet just can't provide.
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If they come for the Libraries, personal collections become vastly important. Fahrenheit 451 😉
I went to Goods Unite Us app to see how B&N supported the election.
Happy to see results and that I can shop there. Sad I have to check.
For me, it’s just better to be out there in a physical school
I guess I should say she is getting a Woke Liberal DEI STEAM Education!
And gain knowledge.
I think of them as a sanctuary for my mind, and the librarians are the guardians.
Even the very small library in my very tiny town.
- Emily Dickinson
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Libraries frown if you decide to randomly keep copies, sir. Book stores still have a purpose for those who desire personal copies.
If they come for the Libraries, personal collections become vastly important. Fahrenheit 451 😉
I possibly need one as an adult now 😭
Silence is golden!
More often than not, today's local library is narrow in breadth, and shallow in depth on classifications, non-fiction and fiction alike, never mind nearly devoid of resources in education materials, especially beyond K-12.
At some point, you have to decide what you really believe.
Spent yesterday seeing the free Treasures, Threads & Lines, and Byron exhibits at the main #NYPL, then walked 2 blocks S to the recently/renovated Mid-Manhattan library to peruse new fictioand have tea on outdoor rooftop
On way out, signed up for the monthly book club.
54% of US adults have a literacy below 6th grade level.
Education is everything.
Stop industry consolidation in its tracks, and work to reverse it. It has gone FAR too far
God bless. 💙🇪🇺🇺🇦💜🦋🕊
Take care of your own, America!
Researching online may be easier/faster, but feeling a book in your hands and the scent of them is something the internet just can't provide.
I love photo books and anyone in my family, under 30, looks at me like I'm nuts when I say that.
Digital memories simply aren't the same to me.