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Wouldn't know about that - one of the perks of living in London is Charing Cross Road and it's bookshops - Foyles is the greatest bookshop on Earth and in the past five years or so I reckon I've spent a good month and a half in their technical section

I like the Google BookSearch - I've used it a lot to preview things in the past prior to buying online. It's one of those 'well kept secrets' that, strangely, the average bod doesn't seem to know too much about.

Incidentally - Foyles' staff - if you're reading this - I promise soon to make up for the hours spent leafing through books sat cross-legged on your floor - I've been given a purchasing card and a £500 limit at work - so prepare yourselves for the ultimate in nerd spending sprees...

 

Lemme get this straight - you come to London and are contemplating visiting a branch of Waterstones - when Foyles is, quite literally, OPPOSITE? nonononono - that cannot be. next time you're down here in the civilised world, I insist that you visit Foyles. The computer section is on the first floor.

As for your myriad deformities, I cannot possibly pass comment, Suffice it to say that, were you to move briefly to London, in a misguided attempt to sample the 'streets are paved with gold' myth, your envy would quickly turn to pity - as you would find there are far, far more drawbacks to living in this abject shithole than there are perks.

 

What he said ^^

 

Now don't rub it in Pete - living out there in paradise!

 

Is this the bookstore you're talking about zeb?

http://www.foyles.co.uk/foyles/index.asp?TAG=&CID=

 

It is indeed.

Six floors of bookwormy goodness!

 

Six? Worth a visit to London just to do that

 

IMHO Foyles has improved hugely over the last few years.

I remember it as it was 20 years ago when it was eccentric, but excelent stock. It then went through a bad period when other bookshops had the stock and were much better organized, while Foyles just stagnated.

Then it seemed to get a kick up the backside, and now is very good - normaly my first port of call. Particularly as other bookshops such as Waterstones have cut back on non-mainstream stock.

Harry.