Borders (York)

As I?m sure you are aware Borders is actually an American company that has infiltrated the UK. If this is the standard of US shops then I for one want more of them over here! Borders in general always provides a top quality store, I have experience of Leeds, London and the York store. The stores are always well positioned in the city, in spacious, well-decorated buildings. The interior décor is always modern in style but never over the top, giving a feeling of peace and tranquillity, definitely plus points for any book store. Each store is always provided with a vast range of books from bestsellers to very specialised areas of interest. The shelves are always ...  Read the complete review

This book store provides a really wide choice of many books to suit all tastes in a very well laid out shop. I have read a number of opinions on Dooyoo about the Borders shop in Glasgow and I was very pleasantly surprised to come across one of their shops in York. Needless to say we spent a long time in this shop browsing around the books and listening to music CD’s. In the music department are a large number of headphones to listen to a wide range of CD’s and although the prices were not the cheapest around there was a very wide choice of music. In the book sections it was good to see that there was not piles of best sellers trying ...  Read the complete review

Borders has to be one of my favourite shops in York. It's stylishly designed ( if a little soul-less! ) with wooden panelling. But this is just in general a really a nice place to be - sofas and chairs dotted around the place, music playing in the background, a coffee-shop upstairs. In terms of sheer range it is hard to beat - two expansive floors of CDs, Videos, books, magazines, etc etc My favourite facility is the easily accessible way that you can listen to any CD prior to purchase - unlike other stores where you'll be lucky to do so at all ( in my experience ) Borders are quite happy to set it up for you at the specially designed ...  Read the complete review