Bookstores are becoming an endangered species. Barnes and Noble is the last major chain in the states, and even they may not last for too long. How do people get books here? Do you go to a bookstore? Online? Or do you read an e-reader?

If Barnes and Noble closes, I don't know what I will do with my life.

A lot of people order online these days. If I buy a book, it is usually in passing through airports.

Don't know why you can only choose 1 option here. If I do, it's usually in a book store, but I would buy online. I've also bought plenty of books secondhand.

Bookstore. There's a Barnes & Noble and Books-A-Million, so I frequent them.

The only books I buy online are manga volumes. Since there's limited space in bookstores, and some series having 20, 30, 40, or more volumes, there's often times certain volumes that just aren't available in store.

I'm not interested in e-reading.

I rarely buy books. I read a lot of articles instead. The last book I read was Arnold Schwarzenegger's autobiography, Total Recall.

Audio books from audible, paper/hard back from Barnes. I tend to get a digital audible copy and a hard copy at the same time. I don't do any e-reading.

This should really go in the book forum.

That thriving metropolis, the Book subforum.

I read unimportant books on my Kindle, but I've been getting back into reading the hardcover/paperbacks as well. There are Coles and Chapters here to buy from.

Has Borders shut shop in the US??

I recall buying The Wolf of Wall Street from the Borders around the corner from Wall St back in 09. Nice memory.

All the Borders closed here in 2011 which is a bummer. So I basically just buy from Amazon as well as random boutique bookstores, department stores, airports etc.

I hardly get time to read these days so have a massive queue of books to get through.

There was a Borders in Cardiff about ten years ago. Not sure if it's still there, but Waterstones are still around. I think there's a different culture in the UK anyway. Book stores are popular. Second-hand book stores are too, as well as charity shop book sections, and discount book stores (though they close down frequently -- probably more to do with seasonal shopping that culture). It's part of the experience that people like to peruse a physical book store as well as hold and read a book. Libraries, on the other hand, seem to struggle. Not sure why. There was an initiative to get people back to libraries a few years back. Not sure of the outcome of that.

That's like me and movies. I have 105 to watch. But I do actually watch movies, like, two to four times a week. The pile is just never-ending. As for books, I have 0.5 proper books in my queue, and the rest are made up of two survival guides and a Mandarin learner's book.

By the way, that's pretty neat to buy The Wolf of Wall Street just off Wall Street.

No one goes in the book forum.

And nobody ever will if you create all the good book topics elsewhere.

I don't really buy books much. But if/when I do, I go into a bookstore.

I don't read them, I just burn them. Must have some German blood in me.

I said "other" because I get books online from Amazon but will browse bookstores when I can find one, and also go to literary conventions where there are dealers and authors with books to sell.

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Bookstore or Amazon. But always a physical copy. I do not have an e-reading device.

Amazon has books so much cheaper than in store so I usually order from them. (although I guess if you don't have Prime it's a bitch to pay for shipping)

Bookstore, a store like Wal-Mart or Target, or a supermarket.

I do buy books from Barnes & Noble on occasion. Those cheap "bargain" ones and I also buy books from Go Hastings and Goodwill.