Friday, April 16, 2010
Dear People Reading Manga at Borders or Barnes & Noble....
Fuck you!!! It isn't a library, fucking buy the thing or gtfo. Sure you wanna read a few pages and check it out ok, but you read the whole fucking thing and I'm gonna put a foot up your ass. That is all.
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Actually, barnes and noble encourages in-store book reading. Hence the many chairs everywhere.
to hell with that, have some pride!!! I can't stand people who come back every time a new vol is out instead of supporting it and buying it. Go read scanlations they don't deserve to hold the printed version.
The people at my barnes don't even go to the seats, they always sit on the floor of the manga section and block the passage. There's always like 3 or 4 of them.
Haha, those are some interesting people. Same thing happens at the B&N in downtown as well, although I don't exactly mind them reading there since they eventually buy them. Seattle's downtown B&N isn't as lenient as South Center's Borders. Borders seem to be more "Ok, go read, whatever..." Downtown B&N's like "buy or gtfo". Pick your preferred customer service.
There ARE always people freaking reading manga in the manga aisles. They make me nervous when I'm trying to find what I need.
Lul, nervous on how they'll jump at you when you pick a title that they either like or dislike (in exaggeration). Where they will either 1) Talk to you non-stop how awesome X manga is or 2) Simply bullshit their way through persuading you that X manga is crap.
I won't say I'm lucky but I'm a bit of a narcissist and too big of an asshole to wait for someone to move when I'm trying to find the title I'm looking for. I'll usually be nice at first, but since people don't really listen to me when I'm being nice, I often just intentionally bump into them until they glare at me.
"What, you got something to say? Move, you're in my way. This ain't a library."
So I usually drive away the people reading there if the staff haven't already done so. Rarely do I have to do it since downtown B&N is hax to the max.
Well, if there's someone sitting in the manga isle, I tend to stay away, thus prolonging my stay to wait for them to move...
man, I wish we had a barnes and noble in my town. I'd totally go up to those manga readers and compare MAL lists or something. i'd at least ask their favorite titles to get a grasp of their taste, then decide from that if they're cool enough for me to talk to. But yeah, talking in depth to people irl about this crap is always something i've been interested in. Maybe it's because I feel I can't efficiently spew my elitist opinions well enough online..
However, the only book thing in town was a Books a Million, and it moved to a neighboring city because this town sucks or something. The neighboring city is close enough to run up there and pick up a book or something, or go up there once in a blue moon with friends, but in reality it is just too far for me to go to hang out.. Also whenever I'm there I never see people reading the manga.. There's always some business looking guy sitting in the very comfortable chairs right next to the comic book section. But they'll always be reading some none-picture book, usually about economics or something.. So I presume it is est to just avoid those people.
As for free reading and not buying, yeah it is definitely comparable to scanlation sites, and I agree if they're gonna read it like that they should buy it. But I mean, being a man who literally pirates everything I can, I understand them not wanting to drop $10 for a book which takes 30 mins to read, and then drop $10 every time a new chapter of all the series they follow comes out. Like, they'd be crazy expensive.. I think, as long as they're buying at least one of the titles that they're reading, then it is cool with me if they free-sample the rest of them..
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