Oh yeah, and...

[j4]

... the thing I did yesterday lunchtime that I'd never done before -- I bought Book Tokens. I've received lots of Book Tokens in the past, but never actually bought them.

See, I told you it wasn't interesting... but all your suggestions were great. Thank you for entertaining me. :-)

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[bopeepsheep.livejournal.com]

saving up to buy books from the most expensive bookseller in town...

But one that doesn't say 'eh? what?' when you want a US-published book (well, a popular published-there-but-not-here one, anyway). And their range of non-UK magazines is pretty good. I think here, at least, they do better on range than the local competitors do. I don't generally buy 'chart' titles from them, though.

[j4.livejournal.com]

one that doesn't say 'eh? what?' when you want a US-published book

I've never had that reaction from Waterstones -- they look things up, & if they can get them they will. To be honest, though, I'd probably buy online if I wanted US-published books.

magazines

Fair point.

I think here, at least, they do better on range than the local competitors do.

Even better than Blackwells? To be fair, Borders' range in all areas is pretty good, it's their prices that make me reluctant to shop there. OTOH the listening-posts in the music section are great -- you can listen to see if you like something, & then go and order it for about half the price online. 8-)

[hoiho.livejournal.com]

The listening posts are good, but almost every time I've wanted to listen to something recently, it's not been in the database.

[angua.livejournal.com]

Blame Cambridge, when I worked there (for a whole three weeks) it was that branch which ripped the CDs as they came in and that was then spread around to all other Borders stores.