Quote Originally Posted by shootingstar View Post
I dunno, there aren't many independent bookstores in big cities with decent, diverse inventory of titles, these days.
Yes I found an independent bookstore in my area last year that was nice but small, so not really much of an inventory. But they were able to order the book I wanted.

(I was looking for an alternative to the large online store whose name begins with "A" when I found Indiebound -- http://www.indiebound.org/ -- and through them was able to find several independent bookstores in the DC metro area. I also discovered that Politics & Prose, a bookstore in DC, sells online. I've been trying to buy more from local businesses, and was very happy to have found Indiebound.)