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FYI: Engineer's bookstore closing
lotsa (old) books on sale
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First Junior's, now the Engineer's Bookstore?
RIP old Tech.
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Wait an Italian restaurant......... damn
Well that's incredibly sad... I purchased all the books I could from them.
That's super sad, its been around since before my parents were students here.
I went there once at the beginning of every semester, but honestly they could have adapted better. Walking into the Engineer's Bookstore felt like you were transported back to the 70s. The place was dusty and the few books that were there were outdated manuals and technical documents.
They had some seriously old stuff there, I once bought a pocket slide rule from them.
Wow. 1954–2016. Awful news.
It's sad to hear that another small business is closing, but it honestly doesn't surprise me.
I can't think of a single friend or classmate who actually shopped there regularly, and most of the time it never even occurred to me to go purchase textbooks there. Between ordering used books online for cheap, finding PDF's online, just making it through the class without a textbook, or worst case, stopping into B&N while already in Tech Square anyway, there really is no reason for most students to make the trek over there just to buy a textbook. It doesn't help that the business stayed relatively old fashioned and didn't really adapt or change to meet the evolving needs of the community (for example, adding improved reading areas and trying to become more of a destination like most bookstores are today, as opposed to a place to merely purchase textbooks).
It seemed to me that their top floor was just a large wasted space. They could have just cleared it, thrown in some couches, and played chill music.
Oh and Febreeze. Lots of Febreeze. If I couldn't get the pdf, I always went to them. Sad but not surprising.
I wonder if it had anything to do with the shift to having to buy the online access pass for most classes (Connect, MasterPhysics, other Pearson sites), or they just didn't get much business that wasn't GT textbooks.
Oh man that's terrible
The one time I went there, the books I was looking for were just as expensive as the ones at Barnes & Noble. I've found renting books from Amazon to be easily the best system.
or just dont get books at all!
Yeah you could just look for the pdfs, but I prefer physical copies.
"We have been in business since 1954 serving the technical community and the students of Georgia Tech. " Another piece of my GT youth disappears.
Man, that's disappointing. I still have a t-shirt from 2006 from there.
And I have one from 1996 :(
Does anyone know if there's a place online or somewhere where I could get one of those T-shirts? I went today and they didn't have any.
:(
Damn. Did not see that coming.
When do they close?
mid-May? The downstairs looked completely empty.
Yeah, went in today. Not much of anything left and what is left is super outdated. Just cool to look at tbh. (example: Ethernet adapter that said "Works with Windows95!"
So the NSA / Google can't get onto it.
Nice.