[TriLUG] WAY OT: Technical Book Resources

Mike Seda maseda at gmail.com
Thu Sep 7 08:43:49 EDT 2006


I was at the Cary B&N last weekend. They still have a nice selection. 
Fyi: The Brier Creek B&N selection is pretty sad.


Rick DeNatale wrote:
> On 9/7/06, Phillip Rhodes <mindcrime at cpphacker.co.uk> wrote:
>
>> Locally, the B&N in Cary near the corner of Maynard and Walnut used 
>> to have
>> a massive selection of tech books, as did the Borders right down the
>> street (by Walnut & Buck Jones).
>> But Borders has cut back on their selection of computer books
>> substantially and I imagine that
>> B&N has as well (although I haven't been in there for a long time, so
>> I'm not sure).
>
> I've noticed that several of the local B&N stores are carrying less
> computer and tech books. I don't know about the Cary store. But the
> computer book section in the Triangle Town Center store seems to be
> shrinking.
>
> Last time I visited, the best local stores in my regular book store
> rotation were the two Borders on Six Forks Rd.  I think that the
> northern one near Strickland was marginally better.
>




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