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I live in Loudoun County which is fairly large and wealthy county just west of Washington DC. There are no large B&M bookstores left. Books-A-Million closed their large strip mall store and reopened in the old Border's Express in the mall. The large Border's is gone, of course. I used to take my teenage kids to both the large bookstores so that they could rifle through the books and find what they wanted to read. I always walked out with a lot of books. Even though I only buy ebooks I would look for books for me and later buy them as ebooks.
The prices at the B&M stores were higher than online plus I had to pay sales tax but I looked at it as supporting businesses and jobs in the county. There are a few independent bookstores but so far we haven't found any that have books that we like.
Now, I have the kids search online and usually end up buying from Amazon.
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