Borders

Get it while it’s hot! Closing SOON. Great discounts if you can find something you actually want. If you can’t find something you want, buy something you don’t want and act like you wanted it. I find that I look smarter when I carry around a bag from a bookstore.
You may even want to keep the bag and bring your lunch to work in it. It’s like instant street cred in the academic community.

I’ve bought a few books here now that it’s closing and everything is 30−50% off.
Sad to see it go. :(

I am sad that this Borders location is closing. I used to always stop by after paying a visit to Sur La Table next door. Time to find another bookstore to go to, I guess.

I only come here to study or read magazines. Borders didn’t have free wifi when I was in college so I was more focused then. Now that I’m out of school, I’m happy they offer it!
Couple things I don’t like about going to Borders is that they don’t have free parking and sometimes there are no tables available to sit.
Get a pot of tea at Seattle’s Best and get unlimited refills!

Store is nearly empty. So sad to even walk in here.
if you absolutely NEED to go to a bookstore, i would find another place to go.
Upside, validated parking. That’s about the only upside?

This is the nicest Border’s I’ve been to in the city I think. It’s not too big or too small, usually very clean, and friendly staff. The café is always clean too which is a huge plus! It’s in a great area, too.

Probably the best Borders Bookstore that I have been to ever. And that includes the one on Madison Square Garden over Times Square. Unlike that one, this Borders is super roomy, has plenty of chairs to sit and surf the web/​read in, and a larger than average selection of books.
It’s 3 full size floors. Unlike basically any other Borders, there’s plenty of room for you to stretch out and rest, which is exactly what I did.

Some days I wish I could just spend my life in a Borders, among books, reading them, touching them, smelling them, recommending them to a crowd of literature afficianados who would worship me for my extended knowledge of literature.
Yes…I have special dreams.
But as my hubby say quite often, I am special.
(I am still not sure if I should take that as a compliment or not. Whatever)
I stormed in the other day before my dentist appointment because I NEEDED «The Girl Who Played With Fire», sequel to «The Girl With the Dragon Tatoo» by Stieg Larsson. Swedish genius. If you haven’t read him, do it. Lisbeth Salander is the most unforgettable heroin. She is… just…too much.
Anyway — I am looking frantically around the store. Nothing. I go on the computer and the screen says «likely in store». Ok…
I was about to cry, and/​or get into a fit.
And then comes Alec.
Alec is a fellow admirer of Stockholm, Larsson and Lisbeth and understands my misery. He looks around, goes in the back, comes back empty handed. Takes up the phone right away to put one on hold for me in any Borders I want. Chit-​chats. Prints a 30% coupon for me. Gives me a $ 100. No, not really. But all the rest is true! I swear!
So of course, Borders lacks the charm and soul of cute, privately owned bookstores. I am with you on that. But when you meet real book lovers, it totally makes up for it. Right?!?

I hate this Border’s location. I don’t know if the selection is terrible, the stock is low or if it’s that the books are always out of order and stacked all over the place that I can never find anything I want to read at this place. I’m a book browser, I almost never walk into a bookstore knowing for sure what I will walk out with. This is not the bookstore to do this. I’m not sure if I could find anything even I knew what I was looking for. It’s not even good for people watching as is the State St. location, unless you enjoy stroller mazes.
The only reason I ever stop here is out of convenience (it’s right by Whole Foods and it has a parking lot) but it always ends up a wasted 30 minutes I could have spent parking and saving $ 20 at Myopic.

Storytime on Wednesday mornings 10:30am.
We arrived about 3 minutes late, no biggie. About 7 kids there (most under 3 ½) but 3 children Actually sitting. We sat on the side in the half made circle, but the lady reading the books NEVER opened the pages wide or tried to show the kids on the side the book/​pages inside the book. Geezzz… We had no clue what page she was on, or what the characters looked like.
I guess I need to arrive early and plop down right smack in the middle!
Really, to keep the childrens attention share the book a little more. By the end of book 3 — all the kids were roaming around.
Now the positive, free hour and a half of parking with validated ticket, cute books, lot choices for good clearance books and seattles best coffee + free wifi.
I’ll go back for story telling to give it one more chance. We enjoyed skimming the books alone and I read to my son with much more excitment:))

Bathrooms are now much improved! An employee was kind enough to email me and let me know that the improvements had been made. It’s great to know that the Border employees care about what Unilocalers say and made the change.
Borders now have free internet so it’s more popular of a setting so not as quiet as it used to be — great for their business but bad for the studiers out there as internet is always so tempting/​not as quiet anymore.

Convenient location and not too crammed. Borders can sometimes be a bit overpriced though.
I unfortunately had a negative experience with a certain male employee recently when our volunteer organization was on site doing customer gift wrapping for donations. He was completely rude, unhelpful and on a power trip that his job was «oh so busy and demanding» that he couldn’t be bothered to answer a simple question I had. I’m sorry sweetheart, your a border’s cashier, not king of the world. He obviously forgot that I am potential customer once my volunteer duties were finished for the day and I was free to shop, but after his actions I had no desire to do anything but leave once we were finished.

I spent time studying here for an upcoming professional exam. The people at Seattle’s Coffee were extremely nice, my drink was tasty, and the chairs are comfortable. I love the location next to the redline.
Now, points were lost for the filthy ladies room. It made me dry-​heave. Which sucks because if you’re studying for hours and drinking coffee, well, eventually, you’re gonna have to go.
A final comment — very eclectic group of customers… The guy I was sitting next to had his laptop open but was sleeping… and every ½ hour he’d get up with his toothbrush and toothpaste and go (I assume) to the bathroom to brush his teeth. When he walked by me, he smelled of hot dogs. Weird.

I adore this Borders location and have spent many, many hours of my life here. The location is great, and I spent a good part of my Sunday flipping through magazines and watching the «Free Hug» people in the square while sipping a latte. The staff is very knowledgeable and always helps me find exactly what I’m looking for in spite of the place being perpetually packed. I spend a fortune here out of guilt for taking up their space for so many hours. What will I do when they close next year? Noooooo!!!

Quality bookstore. A sizable, very comfy, clean, well organized place. We brought the bambino here last week for their Saturday Afternoon Kids play/​story time.
They played a few games that included a variation of musical chairs (standing) and a Bozo Buckets game and handed out prizes for all the little ones. They also had story time which included a book that was one of his favs for at home reading; admittedly it wasn’t nearly as fun/​exciting as «Dada» wasn’t doing the reading;) Snacks were enjoyed from the attached Seattle’s Best during a Coloring sesh.
Overall a good way to get out of the house and enjoy some family time down the local bookstore.

Borders is great! This location, in particular, is very nice and central to a lot of other great stores. There’s convenient parking in a garage about half a block away from the store (free with validation!) and you can do other shopping or go to a restaurant, as well.
The Borders is always well organized and well layed out. I’ve never had a problem finding anything and the staff is always helpful when you need to ask about something. There are also computer stations available if you just want to see if the store has a book without asking — the computer will direct you to the correct section so you can find your book.
They don’t mind if people hang out and read or take their time in finding a book, either. This always makes me happy because I don’t really want to sit and read a book, but sometimes I want to take my time and make sure I’m getting the right thing.
There’s also coffee and snacks so you can hang out, get some coffee and use your laptop to do homework or whatever. It’s a good place to have a study group, too.
Lastly (and probably most importantly) the prices are great. Though I patronize small bookstores as well as large chain stores, Borders seems to have the best prices that I’ve seen out of all of them. They have reasonably priced stationary, pens, journals, etc. and great inexpensive books.

I give four stars because I usually love Seattles Best Coffee staff on the second floor. They are very friendly and their drinks are great.
However, they do not get five stars because of one of their employees in the café has the personality of a camel’s skin and seems totally peeved every time you order something. She talks through her teeth and never smiles. I used to work at a coffee shop honey, let me tell you, it gets better… SMILE!

Absolutely love this Borders — it is my office away from home — away from the ‘office’ — I grab a table by the window, a cup of joe, plug in everything from laptop to pda and start working!
I’m a brisk walk away and you can find me here over the weekend on one of their comfy chairs reading. It does get crowded! The drinks are great and made to your liking… Love the variety of people here as well — this morning — grandma, mom and her son, some tattoo artists checking out their designs, and some construction workers and ME!

It’s a Borders pretty much like any other Borders, so let me focus on setting the record straight about the parking garage.
1) You can enter from North or Clybourn. The signs are very clear.
2) Parking is validated by the cashier. (This is not a do-​it-​yourself, so-​what-​if-​I-​only-​browsed thing like at the Barnes & Noble up on Webster.)
3) You can park for FREE for 90 minutes in the structure or for 20 minutes in the short-​term lot.

I’ve finally decided that you’re dead to me Borders. I’ve had it with your lack of selection, and ever rapidly decreasing book and magazine selection. You were always the first place I would check for a book, and your constant disappointment has finally taken it’s toll.
You should only have two stars, because you’re not totally worthless. But you get an extra star because you have validated parking, which means FREE PARKING (under like 45 min i think, not sure). And I love free validated parking, it makes me happy.
But even the tempting offer of free parking can’t redeem you now Borders. Other places not too far up the road can give me free validated parking as well, you’re not that special! Why should I even bother coming to you when you never fill my literary desires.