An Annoyance...

[Protocol_Nova]

Has this ever happened to you guys: You walk into your favorite book store to buy manga when all of a sudden you encounter the people that like to "take over" the aisles? These are the type of people that like to pick up a title, sit on the floor, and read it... OBLIVIOUS to the people who came to simply shop for manga. This has happened three times this month at my local Borders and I for one am sick of having to go around such people just to get the book I want. This probably doesn't happen everytime one shops for manga, but it seems like somebody will always find a group of 3-4 people owning the section for some twenty minutes. Of course it wouldn't hurt to simply buy the book and read it outside of the store (or go to the reading room and then read.)

[Debitt]

People like that should die. Not really, but yeah, it's incredibly annoying. If I want to read a book in the store, I try to move to the side of the aisle so I don't block anyone. ^^;

o_o; Even worse is all the smelly little kids that take over the manga aisle (no really, all these kids can't be more than 9 or 10 and they smell so bad. T_T; ). They're all hyperactive children who swarm all over me and ask them if I think Kenshin is the coolest ever. When I say no they look at me like I'm stupid. >_>; And I'm thinking "aren't you a little too young to be reading Kenshin? O_o;"

[Ingemar]

They don't want to pay no$ebleed prices for a book that can be finished in ten minutes of reading. I don't blame them.

[Stephen]

Just yell at them. *laughs* No, I kid. It is rather annoying. Even more so, if your store had a "reading room" as you mentioned. Just ignore em. If there in your way, walk up and say excuse me till they move. Typicaly someone reading can only take so much pestering before they all but run to get away.

[Pent]

My friends will read an entire manga series in the book store. That's so cheap.

[ChristianKitsune]

I have friend that do that too.. but I am like.."Is that legal?" What I find annoying is when my bookstore/entertainment store hosts Yugioh tournements and all the little kids are playing in the anime section...I am like "MOVE IT LAMERS!" (no offence to any yugioh lover...the series is ok..but I can think of better series that I like..lol)

Seriously though...I am glad my book store has chairs for this kind of thing...

[Mangafanatic]

Sorry. That was probably me reading that manga in the book store.

. . . Wait!? Reading manga sitting in THE FLOOR!? How barbaric! I read my manga in a chair like a civilized person.

[Stephen]

I am glad my book store has chairs for this kind of thing...

To sit in, or hit people reading in the floor with?

[Arnobius]

It's always been a pain to see the manga aisle in shambles, or having people spread out all over sitting on the floor oblivious to us paying customers.

[Myoti]

We don't really have manga "aisles" at our Waldenbooks store, just this section in the corner with all of them. I like to flip through them, but I try to not to read much of them there. If it looks interesting I might buy it (if I have the money), but there's almost never anyone else in that section to worry about "getting in the way of" (more for me ^-^).
I actually stare more at the price of the manga than at the inside, trying to decide whether or not I really want it. Of course, I got Naruto on discount, so of course I wanted it!

The little annoying kids tend to bother me more at the video game sections, like in Wal-Mart, where they come up and start talking to me while I'm playing a game, or asking if they can play. One little kid even reset the GC because I wouldn't let him play. O_O I don't think his parents have found him yet...

I am glad my book store has chairs for this kind of thing...

I think our store gave up. They just stuck this stool in the manga section for reading.

[Madeline]

I put all the manga I want on my head and browse the bookstore while reading. Prota-chan can testify to this...her evil brothers kept on tipping the books off my head, lol. Sometimes I go over to the international music section, and it's really hard to get the headphones on without tipping all of the manga off my head...I look like an oddball, I know, but it keeps my hands free for reading.

Yes, I know of the people you're talking about. It's annoying, but then again, I don't blame them. ^^ Most of the time there aren't any spare chairs.

[Stephen]

One little kid even reset the GC because I wouldn't let him play. O_O I don't think his parents have found him yet...

ROFL. When I first read that he reset it, I was like...whoa kid needed to be slapped...then I see your last part....Late at night the Walmart employees hear someone tapping on the inside of the game case...

[Myoti]

ROFL. When I first read that he reset it, I was like...whoa kid needed to be slapped...then I see your last part....Late at night the Walmart employees hear someone tapping on the inside of the game case...

I shoved him in behind the PS2 stuff. Not one will think to look there.

[Mr. SmartyPants]

XD thats why MY barnes and nobles has CHAIRS!

[Alice]

Yeah chairs are better for that sort of thing.

I don't have too much trouble with that. Some girls were reading on the floor nearby a week or so ago, but they didn't totally crowd everything. I stepped over them.

And it's kinda cool to see what kind of people like to read what kind of stuff.

[mitsuki lover]

I admit to being guilty of picking up and skimming through manga while I book shop.Then again that's my usual modus operandi while looking for
books.
I however do not sit on the floor.I may kneel while looking at titles on the bottom shelf but I never sit.
people who sit and block the aisle ought to be executed!

[HisaishiFan]

My favorite bookstore is a wonderful independent store (not a chain), with a few locations in Kentucky and Ohio. They have *benches* to sit on. So don't get too comfy (just buy the manga) . . . .

[ChristianKitsune]

Shatterheart..you are hilarious sometimes...and you too Myoti..HAhaha.....

Chairs for sitting in...We also have a nice little coffee area toward the front of the store..(well at one branch of this particular store you see..I live withing an hour of three of these books stores...lol but everyone of them have chairs!)

Actually a couple of weeks ago I started talking to these younger girls...they were reading Chobits or something...really nice bunch of kids...didn't really like that they were only 12 and reading that kind of stuff..but who was I to say anything?

I mean if they are going to be in your way...why NOT annoy them? I mean they are annoying you by sitting in front of your favorite series...

I guess I coulda kicked them...but that might have caused a lawsuit...or something even more annoying,,"WAAAAAH MOMMY THIS GIRL KICKED MEEEEE!!!"

I think the only time i EVER stopped to read a manga at a bookstore for more than 5 minutes was while I was looking at a Tokyopop Rising Stars of Manga book...trying to understand WHAT wins the day at that place....

[Arnobius]

I think Kinokuniya has the right idea for preventing these annoyances-- all manga (English or JP) have a shrink wrap on them. There are signs saying "If you wish to see inside, please contact an assistant."

That way serious customers don't have to be bothered by people who think the bookstore is a public library.

Our Borders used to have a reading area, but it got yanked on account of too many abuses. Now, it is easy to get a manga.

[ChristianKitsune]

Yah....but at my bookstore if a manga comes in shrink wrap...that means it is REAAAAAAAAAAALY not good for kids...^_^; If my mom saw me buying somethng in shrink wrap she would be, "Why is that in plastic?"

I would be like "I-Its not what you think!" haha..

[Stephen]

That way serious customers don't have to be bothered by people who think the bookstore is a public library.

I agree with that. While I somtimes will thumb through somthing quickly at a Borders or somthing (never more then like 2 minutes) I think shrinkwrapping stuff would help big time. I find it funny...that as a society we frown on downloading stuff...yet people have no issue reading a book rather then buying it. Whats the point of a bookstore if they let you read it there?

[ChristianKitsune]

EXACTLY!! GOOD point SH!

[Arnobius]

[quote="ChristianRonin"]Yah....but at my bookstore if a manga comes in shrink wrap...that means it is REAAAAAAAAAAALY not good for kids...^_^]
In this bookstore, actually all manga are wrapped. Though I guess you're right. We've already set the precedent.

I think half the reason the manga are wrapped is to keep the little flyers from falling out. There can be a lot of bonuses in JP manga

[Alice]

I used to read a lot of manga in Borders. The staff never minded.

But, whenever I bought manga (and I did), I almost always got it there.

I think that's why they don't mind people reading it.

Sure, there are always cheapskates, but most people, even if they come to look, will end up buying something. And I think Borders benefits from the laid-back attitude, in the long run.

[ZiP]

Has this ever happened to you guys: You walk into your favorite book store to buy manga when all of a sudden you encounter the people that like to "take over" the aisles? These are the type of people that like to pick up a title, sit on the floor, and read it... OBLIVIOUS to the people who came to simply shop for manga. This has happened three times this month at my local Borders and I for one am sick of having to go around such people just to get the book I want. This probably doesn't happen everytime one shops for manga, but it seems like somebody will always find a group of 3-4 people owning the section for some twenty minutes. Of course it wouldn't hurt to simply buy the book and read it outside of the store (or go to the reading room and then read.)

Hahaha, I have to admit, I'm a huge aisle guyle,
love to just pop in and start reading a manga.
I do it in B&N though, where the aisles are fairly wide, and since I'm the only one (never seen anyone else in the aisles sitting, and reading), people should be able to get through fine, so I see no problem.

I do it, and I'm proud... Well, not proud, but I'll keep doing it anyway.

[Shao Feng-Li]

Has this ever happened to you guys: You walk into your favorite book store to buy manga when all of a sudden you encounter the people that like to "take over" the aisles?

Nope. My siblings and I are usually the only one's in the manga aisle.

[oro!]

I like to sit and read in the aisle myself. WHY buy a manga if you don't know if it's good? I don't read all the way through...just enough to check it out. I have a pretty big collection, mostly from Borders, so they don't mind.

[Stephen]

WHY buy a manga if you don't know if it's good? I don't read all the way through

Then you are in a minority I think. From the people I have talked to online...most people like to go and read the Manga there. It would be like going to Walmart and being able to play an entire CD. Listen to it, and leave.

[VioletEyedCat]

I'm very lucky, myself. My librarian mother has taught me that it is a hideous sin and horribly rude to read books in the store, so I can't read a manga all the way through in the store without hearing her voice in my head. But I don't really mind when people do read in the aisles because A: there's usually only one other person there, if anyone and B: they always stick the manga section in the back next to the magazines and chairs, so the aisle is super-wide. If anyone does get in my way, I never have a problem with reaching right around their face to get at the manga I want with only a muttered "'scuse me". That usually gets them all embarrassed and flustered, and the scuttle away. Bwa Ha Ha.

[Yojimbo]

Yeah it's slightly annoying, but since I'm not a manga reading person I don't notice it there specifically. But yeah Borders is good because they have that laid back atmosphere like someone else said. And I do usually take a minute or two to look at a magazine or book I plan on buying. Ya know, good to get a look at it at least.