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Vicserr
 Posts: 480 Location: Carolina, Puerto Rico USA |
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No Nina!!!!!!!, a bat is not the solution...
Nuking them from orbit is the only way to be sure of getting them all 
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JNOtaku
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Actually, I was thinking of something "from the sky", too. Do bookstores that have this problem have visible cameras over the manga section? If they don't, they should, as it would let the manga grazers know that they are being watched. |
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stuckinfresno
 Posts: 223 Location: Fresno, CA |
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Yeah Nina! Got get 'em!
Just one request please, please post the pictures of a clean undamaged manga isle. I would love to see one once in my life. Also:
Actually I have tried and I was given a resounded "whatever" by the store staff. Then again I hate my local B&N because they use security tags that damage the books. Sadly people here don't care. To the Borders staff member who corrects the bad books thank you I wish you were at my Borders. 
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Emerje
 Posts: 7338 Location: Maine |
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I don't so much have a problem with the reading (I've done it waiting for a movie to start next door), but the sitting! Do they HAVE to sit on the floor in front of the shelves!? B&N makes a lot of chairs available for this, just go off and find one and if you insist on sitting on the floor do it somewhere else. I honestly don't know why book stores don't have signs up telling people not to sit on the floor, that has to be a safety/fire hazard.
Another awesome comic, Robin! Emerje |
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Asako
 Posts: 751 Location: Hawaii |
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Heh, speaking of crowded aisles, maybe one day someone should trip over another customer who's sitting in the aisles and sue? haha I dislike the idea of suing for stupid reasons, but perhaps something better might come out of it
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Mr.Shonen
Posts: 269 Location: Brooklyn, NY |
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So true, so true.
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phoenixphire24
 Posts: 260 Location: SoCal |
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I too have this problem with my B&N sometimes. I have picked up manga to inspect it and found the security sticker stuck right in the middle of the book. Why put it there!?! All it does is obscure the page and rip it if you try and remove it. |
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digidragon
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Posts: 173 |
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Well, standing can be a problem if there's enough of them. The only time I had that problem, though, was in a Japanese bookstore. And it must have been the end of the school day. All standing in a row, mesmerized, not moving. It made a very effective wall.
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Emma Iveli
Posts: 679 Location: Hobo with internet |
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Man, that's so true. Half the time whenever I go the closet borders to my house, there's those people... Sometimes I'm scared to go looking in there because I'm afraid I might fall, really. If I fall I could easily break a bone... if they notice me then they move (as I use crutches to walk) but still... the good thing is I usually go in the middle of the week when's no one there, that's the only time I could go safely.
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rob_pait
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At the Borders near my college, the problem got bad enough that they began shrink wrapping EVERY manga volume and graphic novel in the store to solve the rat problem. Now when I buy manga, I have to remove enough plastic to get to the sweet sweet manga center that it takes a couple of minutes using a utility knife.
Back at home, where the borders has done nothing about the rat problem, its allmost impossible to get undamaged goods. Enough come after school every day due to its proximity to a middle school that the staff have given up on trying to deal with hydra-esque problem and have resigned to putting a library cart near the manga section for them to return the manga they are done with to, so the staff can at least put them back in the right spot. On a Saturday, the cart is normally full by noon. Stupid manga rats, they make me embarassed to buy manga, can't we just introduce them to piracy so they can read for free in the comfort of their own homes? |
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billyarnie
 Posts: 190 Location: San Antonio, TX |
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I'm an old-school "free reader" & still am sometimes. In the "Good Ol' Days", when I read comics from the spinning rack, the store owner would confront you if you stayed too long. "Are you gonna buy that or not?!"  You would be surprised what a little embarassment can do... but if big box book stores don't care or are too afraid of negative reaction, maybe that's why "manga cows" still graze... MOOO! 
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braves
 Posts: 2309 Location: Puerto Rico (but living in Texas) |
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Thankfully, I haven't been in this situation a lot, but it has been happening more frequently as of late in the Borders I go to. They just sit there in the middle of the aisle, and I have to zig-zag my way through to get my manga.
Go get 'em, Nina! 
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eviltimes
 Posts: 116 Location: Callisto |
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Awesome Nina goodness !!!
So, Chief, all ya have to do is... Hit! Hit! Hit! 
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BrothersElric
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Hey, that's me y'all are talking about!
Nah, actually I don't have nearly a probelm with it these days as I used to. And even then, as well as now, I always tried to find a chair of some sorts. Only problem is, in the B&N in our town, THERE ARE NO CHAIRS!!!!!  There used to be, but for some odd reason they decided to get rid of them all. And even when I sit on the floor to read, even then no one seems to have much of a problem with it, not even the other people walking through. They usually just politely say "Excuse me" and I politely say "sorry" and move. Although I don't do this in the SLC B&N though, they actually have said chairs and tables I can go to. 
And I also try to leave everything I read in the same condition as it was before, so you don't have to worry about that either. In any case though, like I said, I don't do this nearly as often as I used to. I used to do it with anything I ever read, nowadays I only do it with series that are already considerably well into it, then buy the volume that I left off with and keep buying it from there, or when I want to preview a series I eventually plan on buying. Although I will say though, as at least respectable as my collection already is, I can't help but think it'd be so much better if I bought everything I've ever read in the store. I do eventually plan on doing it however, but for now it's kinda a hard thing for me to do. So please, dear Nina, when you go back to that bookstore with your bat, please make sure to notice me and avoid taking me out! 
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kyokun703
 Posts: 2505 Location: Orgrimmar |
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The ones in the middle are usually the "good" ones that come off with only a little trouble as long as you pry it off slowly. The ones that are in the covers are the nightmare ones, as they are permanent and you seriously cannot remove these without ripping and bending the cover. I've complained several times to Borders, and have given up, and refuse to buy any manga from them unless I luck out and find one of the removable kind in the middle. Oh, and the "bat needs some nails" comment that someone made at the beginning of this thread was hilarious. 
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